ImageEn Features

ImageEn is the most powerful native image library available for Delphi, C++Builder and .NET. The library includes a complete suite of VCL components and classes to handle all aspects of image editing, analysis and display.

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Compatible with:

Delphi and C++Builder 5 - 7, 2005 - 2010, XE - XE8, 10, 11, 12 .NET 2.0 or newer

File Operations

Support for all common image formats
Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping
Loading and saving of digital camera (EXIF) fields in JPEG, TIFF, RAW and HD Photo files
Loading and saving of Adobe XMP fields from JPEG, TIFF, HD Photo and PSD files
Camera Raw image support including access to internal thumbnails and other data fields

sunset-ocean.png Ocean at sunset with a tree

EXIF data

Make	Canon	ShutterSpeedValue	1/125
Model	Canon PowerShot A75	ApertureValue	4.970854
Orientation	1	DateTime	2012:08:15 19:20:00
Resolution	1920 x 1080	DateTimeOriginal	2012:08:15 19:20:00
ExposureTime	1/4 sec	DateTimeDigitized	2012:08:15 19:20:00
FNumber	f/4.0
ExposureProgram	Manual
ExifVersion	0220

Loading and saving of
EXIF GPS fields Globe with pins on it

Support for alpha channel in GIF, TIFF, PNG, ICO, CUR, TGA, PSD files
Asynchronous loading and saving
Support for Color Management Systems to process ICC profiles
Load images directly from the internet (using http/ftp protocol)
Encryption and decryption using a 128 bit key
Support for other formats such as HEIF, WebP, JBIG, etc, via plug-ins

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

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

Bubble photo with rulers and measurements

Automatic rulers
Measurement of lines, angles, perimeters and areas

Display and navigate images using
Coverflow-style animation

Image Editing and Processing

Rotation, cropping, and interactive adjustment
of perspective distortion.

Many selection types: rectangle, ellipse, polygon and "magic wand" (to instantly select a colored area) and other options (including selection intensity and feathering)

Interactive adjustment of perspective distortion

Other mouse interaction options include cropping, mouse wheel support and click-dragging to rotate, navigate and zoom the image

Clone tool to remove unwanted areas of the image

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.

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)

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
Multilevel undo and redo

Batch perform effects, editing and color operations

Chromakey background removal background removal

Image effects including custom filters, bump map, lens, wave, morphing, Gaussian and motion blurring and sharpening (using code or the built-in dialog)

Edge and skew detection Detection of skew in scanned documents

Image cropping, auto-cropping, flipping, rotation and resizing (using code or the built-in dialog)

Soft shadow and inner shadow effects

Pixelation to obscure image content

Conversion of color ranges, gray scale and negative

Color and monochrome image dithering

Layer and Vector Support

Image, text, angle, shape and poly-line layer editing Boat image as layer

Many options including curves, rotation, grouping, transparency, soft-shadow, anti-alias and gradients

Layer 1

Layer 2

Layer 3

Layer 4

Over 100 built-in vector shapes

Import and export layers from PSD, PDF and SVG

Component to preview layers of image Component to view and edit layers of image

Thumbnails

Powerful thumbnail component that displays a grid of images, videos and other files (e.g. read from a folder or database table):

Many style and other customizations, including wallpaper
Supports multiple selection and/or checkboxes
Display all frames/pages of: AVI, GIF, PDF, TIFF or video files (using DirectShow)
Very memory efficient and fast with multi-threading background image loading, disk and memory caching and optional use of embedded thumbnails

Image and Video Acquisition

Acquire images from Twain and WIA compatible scanners and cameras, and connected portable devices Also provides a generic interface to all acquisition sources, Twain, WIA and connected cameras and cards

Also provides a generic interface to all acquisition sources, Twain, WIA and connected cameras and cards

Direct Video capture from the screen

Video capture and saving of multimedia using DirectShow and Microsoft Media Foundation. Supports all installed codecs and video capture cards Video capture using installed drivers

Adobe PDF Features

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

Viewing and manipulation of Adobe PDF Files including image and text selection.
Search and highlight text in the current page or document

Display a single page or all pages at once

User editing of form fields and programmatic reading and setting of values.
Programmatically read and modify objects on the page (images, text, paths, etc)

Page thumbnail viewer with one-click navigation

Rotate, import, export, delete and move pages
High quality printing and bitmap exporting

Support for Bookmarks, attachments, web links and keyboard shortcuts

Other Components

ListView component to view and edit image properties, EXIF, IPTC and XMP data, PDF fields and Dicom tags

Windows Explorer style Folder Tree and File List component (with device support)

Advanced Rich Editing control with automatic toolbar, and importing from and exporting to Word documents

Color Curve and Histogram controls

Other Features

Use Google Vision API to recognize objects, text, handwriting, faces, famous landmarks and logos in images

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Fully customizable toolbar components and popup menus

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 Languages

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Supports VCL Themes

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Printing of single images and sheets of multiple images, including print preview support Preview of an image being printed

Over 400 actions for all common ImageEn functions, allowing you to build applications with minimal code
Data-aware versions of image and thumbnail components to automatically display files stored as blob or path references in a database table
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
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

IEVision

Advanced Features Add-On

IEVision is an optional add-on for ImageEn that delivers enhanced functionality. 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 Video capture using installed drivers

Facial Recognition: Searching images and video streams for specific faces Searching for faces in images and video streams

Face and object tracking in video streams

Patching of images to hide blemishes and copy content Patching of images (to hide blemishes and copy content)

Classifying images (based on training with positive and negative samples) Searching images for matches (based on a training with positive and negative samples)

Searching images for matches (based on a training with positive and negative samples)

Deep Learning Neural Network support to classify objects, detect text and upscale images

Exposure Fusion to merge images taken with multiple exposures into a single image

Barcode Recognition in images and videos (EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39 and QR Code) Barcode Recognition (all common bar code formats, including QR code)

Barcode Recognition (all common bar code formats, including QR code)

Face detection: Finding faces and other parts of the body, eyes, glasses, smile, cat faces and number plates

Automatic orientation of images Automatic orientation of Images

Detect and count shapes Detect and count shapes within images

Searching an image for matches Searching images for matches (based on a source image)

Photo Stitching

Automatic Background Removal from images and videos Background Removal

Plus many other advanced image processing algorithms: "Watershed" and "Grabcut" automatic selection, "Non-local Means" denoising, "Hough" transformations, "Canny" edge detection, image erosion and dilation, blurring and thresholding.

Specifications

Components

TImageEnView	Display images and videos (with layer support)
TIEEditControls	Controls to apply editing and visual effects to an image
TImageEnViewToolbar	Toolbar with buttons for TImageEnView
TImageEnProc	Analyze and edit images
TImageEnIO	Load and save images of all formats, print, acquire from scanner, camera or digital device
TImageEnDBView	Display image from database
TImageEnMView	Display multiple images or thumbnails
TImageEnMIO	Load and save images of all multi-page formats, print thumbnails, acquire images from scanner, camera or digital device
TImageEnFolderMView	Display thumbnails of files in a folder
TImageEnLayerMView	Display preview of all layers of an image
TImageEnVect	Display and edit vector images
TOpenImageEnDialog	Open dialog with preview of all image formats
TSaveImageEnDialog	Save dialog with preview of image properties
TIEFolderTree	Windows Explorer style Shell Folder Tree
TIERichEdit	Advanced Rich Editing component
TIERichEditToolbar	Toolbar with buttons for TIERichEdit
TIEColorCurve	Manipulate colors of an image using a color curve
TIEColorPalette	Color display and selection control
THistogramBox	Color and hue histogram control

Key Classes

TIEBitmap	ImageEn's bitmap class, supporting all images formats and advanced functionality
TIOParams	Provides access to the properties and meta-data of image files
TIEDBBitmap	Access to an image stored or referenced in a database (connect to a TImageEnView for display)
TIEMultiBitmap	Loading, editing and saving of multi-frame image formats, such as TIFF, GIF, etc.
TIOMultiParams	Provides access to the properties and meta-data of multi-frame image files
TIEDBMultiBitmap	Access to the images stored or referenced in a database (connect to a TImageEnMView to display as thumbnails)
TIEAcquireParams	Access to scanners, camera and digital devices available via Twain, WIA or Windows Portable Device API
TIEVisionLibrary	Advanced features add-on class for ImageEn: OCR, barcode reading, facial detection and recognition, etc.
TIEGoogleVision	Use Google Vision API to recognize objects, text, handwriting, faces, famous landmarks and logos

Supported Formats

Format	Notes	Load	Save
JPEG	Supports fast preview at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 size
JPEG2000
GIF	Including editing and display of animated GIFs
PNG
BMP
TIFF	Editing and display of single and multipage TIFF and BigTIFF
Raw Camera Formats	Including Digital Negative Format (.dng), Canon (.cr2, .cr3, .crw), Kodak (.dcr), Minolta (.mrw), Nikon (.nef), Olympus (.orf), Pentax (.pef), Fuji (.raf), Leica (.raw), Sony (.srf), Sigma (*.x3f) and more
Icons (ICO)	With multiple resolution and color depth support
DICOM (Medical Imaging)	Single and multipage
Adobe Photoshop (PSD/PSB)	With multiple layer support
ImageEn	Compressed format with support for transparency, vectors, annotations and layers (images, text, shapes and lines)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)	Vector format supported by web browsers
Adobe PDF	Single and multipage documents
PostScript (PS and EPS)	Single and multipage documents
Metafiles (WMF and EMF)
Cursors (CUR)
AVI	Including retrieval and modification of frames
JPEG XL (JXL)
WebP
HEIF/HEIC/AVIF
WIC Formats	All WIC formats are supported, including DirectDraw Surface (.dds), Microsoft HD Photo (.wdp, .hdp) and JPEG XR (.jxr)
Media formats (MPEG, WMV, etc)	Via the DirectShow or MMF API
Zip Files	Loading and extraction of images and files with support for encryption (including 256bit AES) and dynamic loading
Other native formats	PCX, DCX (Multipage PCX), Targa (.tga), PXM, Raw and Wireless BMP (.wbmp)
And many more	GIMP (.xcf), TrueType Fonts (.ttf, .otf), Kodak Photo-CD (.pcd, .pcds), Apple Pict (.pict), CALS Image (.cals, .cal), Flexible Image Transport System (.fits), HP PCL Printer Image (.pcl), Kodak Cineon (.cin), Embrid Embroidery Format (.pes), SMPTE (.dpx), Magick (.miff, .mvg), Matlab (.mat), JPEG Network Graphics (.jng), Multiple-Image Network Graphics (.mng), High Dynamic Range File (.exr), Microsoft XML Page (.xps), MPEG (.mp4, .mpeg, .mpg.mov; .m2v; .m4v), etc

(Items with a pale tick use a plug-in)