ImgSource description
ImgSource is a Win32 library that can be used in any 32-bit Windows environment

ImgSource is a Win32 library set that was developed for being used in all 32-bit Windows environments.

The tool provides over 350 image file and image processing functions and is available both as a DLL that can be used from almost any programming environment (including C/C++, VB, C#, MC++, PowerBasic, Delphi, Access, and many more). It is also available in C/C++ static library form for use with C/C++ in VC6 or VS.Net.

Here are some key features of "ImgSource":

Image File Functions
· Read images from files or memory.
· Write image to files or memory.
· Supports user-defined input and output managers - the ultimate in I/O flexibility
· Optionally read and write most supported image file formats one line-at-a-time.
· Read to a DIB in one function call
· Get image dimensions and bit-depth from image files
· Progress / cancel callback option provided for most file I/O routines and image processing options.
· Supports JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PhotoCD, Photoshop, WBMP, PNG, PCX, PAX, TLA, WMF, EMF, APM, PPM, PGM, PBM and TGA
· JPG, PNG, PAX and TLA comment support
· Multi-page TIFF I/O capabilities
· Animated GIF I/O capabilities
· JPEG_APPx marker support
· Read EXIF data from JPGs and TIFFs
· Write EXIF data to JPG
· Read and write ICC profile data from JPG, PNG, TIFF
· Read and write IPTC data from JPG, TIFF
· Lossless JPG transformations
· Read/write 1-bit G3/G4 (FAX) TIFFs
· Custom memory allocation callbacks for image file reading

Windows Bitmap Functions
· Generate HBITMAPs from RGB buffers
· Generate RGB buffers from HBITMAPs
· Generate 8-bit and RGB buffers from DIBs
· Generate DIBs from RGB, 8 or 1-bit images
· Draw HBITMAP, DIB, RGB, RGBA or 8-bit images to an HDC in one call
· Capture DCs to RGB buffers in one call
· Draw transparent HBITMAP or RGBA or RGB images

Image Processing Functions
· Resize an image to any size
· Apply an arbitrary convolution matrix to an image
· Sharpen, blur and unsharp mask an image
· Rotate an image, any angle
· Detect image rotation (deskew) angle
· Adaptive thresholding for converting grayscale to monochrome
· Polygon and ellipse fill, flood fill or draw lines onto images
· Apply a look up table (LUT) to an image
· Generate grayscale images from RGB images
· Generate 8-bit colormapped images from 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA images (color quantize)
· Convert between 24-bit and 8-bit images
· Using any palette, generate an 8-bit image from an RGB image
· Convert between 16-bit per component and 8-bit per component
· Modify brightness / contrast / saturation of an image
· Automagic brightness correction
· Automagic image border detection
· Automatic dust and scratch removal
· Emboss images
· Polygon warp and point to point warp functions
· FFT and morphological operations
· Despeckle grayscale and RGB images
· Histogram stretch / equalization
· Many alpha blending and image compositing/overlay functions
· Crop images
· Vertically and horizontally flip buffers
· Count colors in RGB images
· Draw smoothed text onto images
· Replace a color in an RGB image
· Many of these functions can be used with 16-bit per component data


Limitations:

· When using ImgSource unregistered, all images read and written will have a large red X watermark drawn on them, and some library functionality may be disabled.