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Introduction

LEADTOOLS Image Processing includes over 200 functions, some of which are typically found only in high performance end-user programs such as Adobe PhotoShop®. The image processing functions are separated into four categories: Transforms, Filters, Color Conversion and Drawing. Additionally, LEADTOOLS image processing functions support region of interest, allowing only a particular region of an image to be processed.

Key Features:

Change the appearance of the image in a bitmap

  • Define the bitmap as a display surface where you can use Windows graphics device interface (GDI) functions for drawing or adding text.
  • Automatically straighten (deskew) a 1-bit image.
  • Remove specks (despeckle) a 1-bit image.
  • Automatically trim a bitmap to remove blank space around the edges.
  • Rotate the image. (Angles can be precise to 100th of a degree.)
  • Do fast rotation in 90-degree increments.
  • Rotate JPEG or CMP compressed images in 90 degree increments or flip them without loss of quality.
  • Shear the image in the fashion of a parallelogram. (Angles are precise to 100th of a degree.)
  • Change the orientation by flipping the image horizontally or vertically.

Adjust colors and intensities:

  • Change brightness using a flat scale.
  • Change brightness using gamma correction.
  • Change contrast using a flat scale.
  • Change contrast using a multi-scale.
  • Stretch the range of intensities.
  • Remap intensities using a lookup table.
  • Create look up tables based on points on a curve or a mathematical function.
  • Invert colors.
  • Change hue of the entire image or just a range of colors.
  • Change saturation.
  • Histogram equalize and histogram contrast.
  • Fill with a specified color.
  • Get and put colors of individual pixels.
  • Color balancing.
  • Load CMYK TIFF files and keep the data in memory as CMYK.

Apply conversions:

  • Halftone for display or printing.

  • Sharpen or blur.

  • Posterize, specifying the number of color planes.

  • Mosaic, specifying the tile size.

  • Emboss, specifying the lighting direction.

  • Soften an image using an average filter.

  • Reduce noise using a median or Gaussian filter.

  • Add noise in any or all color planes.

  • Picturize with a list of images or a single image.

Apply filters to:

  • Detect ranges of intensity.

  • Detect ranges of colors using different color spaces.

  • Detect edges using gradient or Laplacian edge detection.

  • Detect lines using Sobel, Prewitt, shift and difference, or line segment detection.

  • Apply morphological (binary) filters to erode or dilate black objects*.

  • Implement your own spatial filters.

  • Combine images using boolean and arithmetic operators, and color masking. (This is useful for combining filtered images with originals.)

  • Combine two images so that one appears to be an underlying texture of the other.

  • Combine multiple images to create a new image that resembles the current image.

  • Combine a list of images to find the average difference between the images.

  • Redeye removal.

  • Anti-alias the image.*

  • Apply a sepia or "old photo" look to the image.

  • Apply an oil-painting effect.

  • Apply a solarization effect.

  • Apply Fourier Transforms to images.

  • Apply 3D effects: Tunnel, plane, plane bend, etc.

  • Apply many other effects including: Swirl, Ripple, Radial Blur, Impressionist, Wave, Shear, Remove Redeye, Cubism, Glow, Age, etc.

Use medical imaging processing functions to:

  • Create Kaufmann regions. The created regions can be used to determine the Kaufmann ratio, which is the size of the corpus callosum divided by the size of the brain sphere.
  • Extract the individual slices from a radiographic scanned film.

Apply image optimization to:

  • an image buffer in memory
  • an entire directory of images, saving the optimized images to another directory

Optimize the following formats using the Image Optimizer DLL functions:

  • JPEG File (FILE_JPEG).
  • JPEG 411 File (FILE_JPEG_411).
  • JPEG 422 File (FILE_JPEG_422).
  • EXIF JPEG 4:1:1 File (FILE_EXIF_JPEG_411).
  • EXIF JPEG 4:2:2 File (FILE_EXIF_JPEG_422).
  • GIF File (FILE_GIF).
  • PNG File (FILE_PNG).
  • BMP Without RLE Compression File (FILE_BMP).
  • BMP With RLE Compression File (FILE_BMP_RLE).

Use low-level functions to change parts of an image:

For more Information, refer to:

Getting Started (Guide to Example Programs)

LEADTOOLS Image Processing Special Effects Assemblies

Implementing Special Effects

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