DotImage 10 Feature Matrix

Here is a list of some of the features that the core DotImage Toolkit offers, and a comparison of the Photo, Photo Pro, and Document Imaging editions.

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General Imaging
Image Codecs, Compression, and Color Depth Support
Internet and Database Streaming
Windows Forms Image Viewing and Printing
ASP.NET Web Forms Image Viewing and Editing
Silverlight Image Viewing and Editing
Metadata
Color Management
Drawing and Watermarking
Document Cleanup and bi-tonal image processing
Photographic Image Processing
Annotations
TWAIN Scanning
Add-On Modules (OCR, Barcode Reading, Barcode Writing, PDF Reading, JPEG2000, JBIG2, DICOM, CAD Reading)

General Features

Feature	Photo (Free)	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Direct Access to Pixel Data via PixelAccessor object	X	X	X
Export and Import from DIB, hBitmap, or GDI+ Bitmap	X	X	X
Optimizations for Multi-Core processors	X	X	X
Built in multi-threading for loading, saving, and processing images in a background thread.	X	X	X

Image Codecs, Compression, and Color Depth Support

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
1-bit, 4-bit. 8-bit colormapped support	X	X	X
8-bit grayscale, 16-bit grayscale w/alpha, 24-bit RGB, 32-bit RGBA, and 32-bit RGB support	X	X	X
32-bit CMYK support (w/auto color management)		X	X
16-bit grayscale, 48-bit RGB, 64-bit RGBA support		X	X
JPEG, JPEG EXIF, PNG, PNM, TIFF, TIFF G3/G4 Fax, PCX, TGA, BMP, PSD, PCD, GIF, Animated GIF, EXIF, WMF/EMF. (See JBIG2, Jpeg2000, and DICOM for additional codec support)	X	X	X
Digital Camera RAW Decode Support		X	X
XPS and HD Photo/JpegXR Support	X	X	X
Image only PDF Encode Support. (See the PDF Reader module for PDF Read Support)			X
LZW, Packbits, Deflate, G3/G4, RLE, JPEG, and TIFF JPEG Compression (See JBIG2 and Jpeg2000 for additional compressions)	X	X	X
Full alpha transparency support	X	X	X
Multi-page TIFF read support (note: only Document Imaging supports scale to gray display)	X	X	X
Multi-page TIFF write support			X
Lossless JPEG TransformsAuto		X	X
TIFF Directory Manipulation (insert, remove, add pages, and edit/add tags without re-encoding the entire image)			X
Tiled TIFF decoding and encoding	X	X	X
Support for TIFF Type 6 (OJPEG) decoding	X	X	X
Support for TIFF Type 6 (OJPEG) encoding	X	X	X

Internet and Database Streaming

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Easily read and write into a database with Memory Streams and export to Byte Arrays	X	X	X
Read image directly from the internet via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP	X	X	X
Save images to the internet via HTTP Post, and FTP	X	X	X
Built-in multithreaded support for loading and saving images	X	X	X

Windows Forms Image Viewing and Printing

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Scrollable, Zoomable Image Viewer Controls	X	X	X
Multi-Threaded Thumbnail Viewer Control Automatically watch folders and update the thumbnail if there is a change. View multi-page TIFF documents Vertical or Horizontal Layout Custom Captions On Demand Thumbnail Loading Advanced Styling and Control		X	X
Automatically watch folders and update the thumbnail if there is a change.		X	X
Antialias Display for color and grayscale images	X	X	X
Heavily optimized Scale-to-Gray Display for high quality document image display			X
Pan, Zoom, ZoomArea, Select Mouse Tools	X	X	X
Autozoom including Best Fit, Fit to Width, and Fit to Height	X	X	X
Magnifier Component	X	X	X
Animated Rectangle, Ellipse, and Line rubberbands	X	X	X
Printing Component to print images, one per page	X	X	X
Pan, Zoom, Zoom Area, Select Mouse Tools	X	X	X
Composite Image Printing Control to print image composites		X	X
Open Image Dialog Control	X	X	X
Undo / Redo Capability	X	X	X

ASP.NET WebForms Image Viewing and Editing

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Scrollable, Panable, Zoomable AJAX Thin-Client Image Viewer Control		X	X
Web Project Templates for creating AJAX document viewers quickly		X	X
Rectangle Rubberband Selection		X	X
Antialias Display for color and grayscale images		X	X
Heavily optimized and efficient Scale-to-Gray Display for high quality bi-tonal image display. Note: Photo Pro's antialias display can occupy significantly more memory than Document Imaging edition when scaling black and white images.			X
No-postback Zooming, Zoom to Area and Selection mouse tools		X	X
Server-Side Image Viewing		X	X
On-Demand Tiled Loading of images		X	X
Multipage TIFF Support		X (read)	X (read/write)
Multipage PDF Support (for read/decode capability the PDF Reader Add-On is required)			X (write)
Remote Invoke Methods for no-postback "AJAX" processing		X	X
Undo / Redo Capability		X	X
AJAX Thumbnail Viewer control On-demand thumbnail loading Supports multipage TIFF Files Supports custom captions		X	X
Heavily optimized for viewing TIFF images by only loading the necessary tiled data into the server memory			X
Support for web annotations			X

Silverlight Image Viewing and Editing

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Scrollable, Panable, Zoomable Silverlight Image Viewer Control			X
Rectangle Rubberband Selection			X
Antialias Display for color and grayscale images			X
Multipage TIFF Support			X
Multipage PDF Support (for read/decode capability the PDF Reader Add-On is required)			X (write)
Support for annotations			X

Metadata

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
EXIF Metadata read and write support in TIFF and JPEG images		X	X
EXIF Makernote support for many camera manufacturers		X	X
IPTC Metadata read and write support in TIFF and JPEG images		X	X
TIFF Tag Metadata read and write support, with arbitrary tags		X	X
Support for writing Adobe XMP Metadata in PDF, TIFF, and JPEG images		X	X
Support for retrieving Adobe XMP Metadata from TIFF and JPEG images.		X	X
Support for reading and writing WANG annotation data in TIFF images		X	X
Read and Write Adobe Photoshop Resource Metadata		X	X

Color Management

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Full support of Microsoft ICM 2.0 to display images with colors that are exactly as intended		X	X
Read and write embedded ICC color profiles from images		X	X
Convert CMYK images to RGB using color profiles		X	X
Automatically correct colors based on target and display profiles		X	X
Create virtual printed "proofs"		X	X
Black Point Compensation		X	X

Drawing and Watermarking

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Compliment GDI+ by drawing primitives and text directly onto colormapped, 1-bit, and CMYK images using GDI	X	X	X

Document Cleanup and Bi-tonal Image Processing

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Automatically deskew binary images			X
Automatically remove small specks (despeckle) on binary images			X
Automatically remove heavy noise on binary images using median filter			X
Advanced adaptive, global, and simple thresholding to convert color and grayscale images to binary			X
Automatic border detection and removal of binary images			X
Automatically Negate Images that are inverted			X
Detect Blank Pages			X
Remove Specs of a defined size			X
Crop Borders surrounding an image			X
Automatic inversion of inverted text regions			X
Remove a blob of a defined size			X
Detect and remove elliptical hole punch artifacts			X
Detect and remove Solid, Broken, and Dotted Lines while reconnecting broken characters			X
Margin Crop			X
Detect and remove Halftone "dot shading" in a binary image			X
Detect Color on a scanned Document			X
Native Color Deskew			X
Advanced Document Cleanup			X

Photographic Image Processing

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Asynchronous / multi-threading support	X	X	X
Progress Event that's fired for each row processed	X	X	X
Unlimited Undo & Redo levels	X	X	X
Region of Interest Processing		X	X
Levels, AutoLevels, Curves, and AutoContrast Commands		X	X
Red Eye Removal		X	X
Dust and Scratch Removal		X	X
Over 20 resampling methods	X	X	X
Rotate, Skew, Crop, ResizeCanvas, Flip, Quadrilateral Warp	X	X	X
Push, ApplyPallete, ChangePixelFormat, Generate Noise	X	X	X
Overlay, Overlay Masked, Overlay Merged	X	X	X
Look up Table (LUT) functions, Swap Channels, Shift Channels	X	X	X
Invert, Replace Channel, Flatten Alpha, Set Alpha Mask	X	X	X
Drop Shadow, Adjust Tint, Bevel Edge, Adjust Brightness / Contrast	X	X	X
Histogram Equalize, Histogram Stretch, Mosaic, Bevel Edge	X	X	X
De-Interlace, Motion Blur, Gamma Adjust, Posterize, Solarize	X	X	X
Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Adaptive Unsharp Mask	X	X	X
Grayscale Morphological Filters		X	X
Emboss, Sharpen, Threshold, Mean, Median, Midpoint	X	X	X
Convolution Matrix, High Pass Filter	X	X	X
28 Transforms including BumpMap, Elliptical, Stretch, Lens, Line Slice, Marble, Offset, Perlin, Pinch, Polygon, Random, Ripple, Spin, SpinWave, Wave, Wow, ZigZag, and User Defined	X	X	X
10 Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Filters		X	X
Advanced Photo Effects		X	X

Annotations

Full Feature List...

Feature	Photo	Photo Pro	Document Imaging
Supports multiple annotation types Rectangle and Rectangle Highlighter Redaction Ellipse Line Freehand and Freehand Highlighter Text Note Rectangle Hotspot Embedded Image Referenced Image Polygon Lines Ink and Ink Highlighter Rubberstamp Callout			X
Annotate multipage documents			X
Persist annotations into an XMP file			X
Persist annotations into an image as XMP or WANG annotation data			X
WPF Native Annotation Control			X
Silverlight Native Annotation Control			X
Persist annotations into a PDF (and view PDF Annotations)			X
Burn annotations into an image			X
Create and persist your own custom annotations			X
Annotations can be individually rotated or flipped			X
Annotations can be rotated with the image in 90 degree increments			X
Undo/Redo capability			X
Supports ASP.NET Web Annotations with AJAX technology			X
AJAX-based vector annotations (FreeHand, Polygon, Lines)			X
Add comment thread to any annotation			X

TWAIN Scanning