File Operations

• Support for all common image formats
• Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping
• Loading and saving of digital camera fields (EXIF) in JPEG, TIFF, PNG, RAW and HD Photo files (without modifying the original image)
     
• Loading and saving of EXIF GPS fields
     
• Loading and saving of Adobe XMP fields from JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HD Photo and PSD/PSB files
• Camera Raw image support including access to internal thumbnails and other data fields
• Loading and saving of IPTC data (most commonly used by Photoshop) from JPEG and TIFF files (without modifying the original image)
• Quick reading of image properties (dimensions, color depth, etc) without loading image
• Image load and save dialogs which include a preview and relevant save settings
     
• Support for alpha channel in GIF, TIFF, PNG, ICO, CUR, TGA, PSD/PSB files
• Asynchronous loading and saving
• Support for Color Management Systems to process ICC profiles
• Load images directly from the internet (via http/ftp)
• Encryption and decryption using a 128 bit key
• Support for other formats such as HEIF, AVIF, WebP, JBIG, etc, via plug-ins

Image Display

• Images can be automatically displayed "To-Fit" or with real time zoom. Eighteen quality filters are available to enhance its display (from fastest to best quality)
• Images from digital cameras can be automatically displayed with the correct orientation
• 180 stunning image transition and Pan-Zoom effects
     
• Automatic rulers
     
• Measurement of lines, perimeters and areas
     
• Display and navigate images using Coverflow-style animation
     

Image Editing and Processing

• Many selection types: rectangle, ellipse, polygon and "magic wand" (to instantly select a colored area) and other options (including selection intensity and feathering)
     
• Other mouse interaction options include cropping, cloning, mouse wheel support and click-dragging to navigate and zoom the image
     
• Interactive adjustment of perspective distortion
     
• Painting tool with tablet/pen pressure support, and many brush styles and options
     
• Clone tool to remove unwanted areas the image
     
• Eraser and Smart (background detecting) brushes to delete image content
     
• Retouch tools to fix images using smudge, blur, inpaint, sharpen, etc.
    
     
• Effects Chain: Batch perform effects, editing and color operations
     
• Multilevel undo and redo
     
• Easily manipulate and edit single and multi-page images in code using TIEBitmap and TIEMultiBitmap classes
• Image resizing with eighteen quality filters including Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, FastLinear, Bilinear and Bicubic
• Many color adjustment features including automatic enhancement, contrast, HSL, HSV, RGB, histogram equalization, Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT), gamma correction and color curve adjustment (using code or the built-in dialog)
     
• Image effects including custom filters, bump map, lens, wave, morphing, Gaussian and motion blurring and sharpening (using code or the built-in dialog)
     
• Image cropping, auto-cropping, flipping, rotation and resizing (using code or the built-in dialog)
     
• ChromaKey background removal
     
• Edge and skew detection
     
• Red-eye removal
• Color and monochrome image dithering
     
• Pixelation to obscure image content
     
• Soft shadow and inner shadow effects
       
• Color curve editing component
     
• Conversion of color ranges, gray scale and negative
• Supports a wide range of native pixel formats: 1 bit, 8 bit paletted, 8 bit grayscale, 16 bit grayscale, 24 bit RGB, 32 bit floating point, 24 bit CMYK, 48 bit RGB, CIELab

Thumbnails

• Powerful thumbnail component that displays a grid of images (e.g. read from a file, folder or database)
     
• Many style and other customizations
       
• Supports multiple selection and/or checkboxes
• Display all frames/pages of: AVI, GIF, PDF, TIFF, ZIP or video files (using Directshow)
• Very memory efficient and fast with multi-threaded background image loading, disk caching, memory caching and optional use of embedded thumbnails

Layer and Vector Support

• Image, text, vector shape, angle and poly-line layer support
     
• Many options including curves, rotation, grouping, transparency, soft-shadow, anti-alias and gradients
        
• Easily edit polygons by point dragging, including adding curves
         
• Over 100 built-in vector shapes
                       
• Component to preview layers of image
     
• Component and dialog to edit layer properties
     
• Shape and gradient masks
     
• Import/export layers from PSD, PDF and SVG
     

Image and Video Acquisition

• Acquire images from Twain and WIA compatible scanners and cameras, and connected portable devices, like mobile phones (ImageEn provides a generic interface to acquire from all devices regardless of type)
     
• Video capture and saving of multimedia using DirectShow and Microsoft Media Foundation. Supports all installed codecs and video capture cards
     
• Capture from screen

IEVision Advanced Features Plug-In

IEVision is an optional plugin for ImageEn which adds advanced features. We have taken leading imaging libraries, including OpenCV, Tesseract, LibRaw and Boost, and seamlessly integrated them into ImageEn for easy usage in Delphi and C++Builder.

• OCR (Image to Text Conversion) with support for 110 languages
     
• Facial recognition: Searching for specific faces
     
• Face detection: Finding faces and other parts of the body, eyes, glasses, smiles, cat faces and number plates
     
• Face and objects tracking
     
• Searching an image for matches
     
• Barcode reading (EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code)
     
• Photo Stitching
     
• Using a Neural Network (with local model files) to classify objects, detect text and upscale images
    
• Automatic orientation of images
     
• Inpainting/Image patching (to hide blemishes and copy content)
     
• Blob Detection: Detecting and counting objects in an image
     
• Automatic Background Removal from images and videos
     
• Image classification by training with positive and negative samples
     
• Exposure Fusion to merge images taken with multiple exposures into a single image
     
• Other advanced image processing algorithms (Non-local Means Denoising, Hough transformations, edge detection, image erosion and dilation, etc)

Adobe PDF Features

ImageEn offers the most complete implementation of PDFium available for Delphi and C++Builder.

• Viewing and editing of Adobe PDF documents including image and text selection
     
• Display a single page or all pages at once
     
• User and programmatic editing of page objects (images, text, paths, etc) with clipboard support
• User editing of form fields and programmatic reading and setting of values
     
• View and edit edit page annotations
• Rotate, import, export, delete and move pages
• Search and highlight text in the current page or document
• Page thumbnail viewer with one-click navigation
     
• Navigation by PDF Bookmarks
     
• High quality printing and bitmap exporting
• Support for attachments, web links and keyboard shortcuts

Other Features

• Use the Google Vision API to recognize objects, text, handwriting, faces, famous landmarks and logos in images
     
• Debugging visualizers to allow you to inspect the content of bitmaps and objects while debugging
     
• Over 400 actions for all common ImageEn functions, allowing you to build applications with minimal code
     
• Customizable toolbar components
     
• Customizable popup menus
       
• Printing of images with Print Preview and poster support
     
• Printing and saving of thumbnail pages (contact sheets) with Print Preview support
     
• Data-aware versions of image and thumbnail components to automatically display files stored as blob or path references in a database table
• One-click selection of languages for all dialogs with support twenty-five languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish
     
• Also works with standard TImage, TPicture and TBitmap classes: Instantly add support for loading and saving to all ImageEn formats, all editing operations, plus printing and acquisition
• Supports VCL Themes
    
     

Other Components

• Windows Explorer style Folder Tree and File List components
          
• Advanced Rich Editing control with automatic toolbar, and importing from and exporting to Word documents
     
• Histogram display control
     
• ListView component to view and edit image properties, EXIF, IPTC and XMP data, PDF fields and Dicom tags
     
• Color Palette and Color button controls
     

Supported Formats

ImageEn supports over eighty image and video formats:
Items with a pale tick use a plug-in

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