Archive: Version 4.0 Features
Version 4.0 Feature Update
The current release is Pixel!FX
2000. However, we are making this archived
list of features available for the convenience of
customers using older versions of Pixel!FX.
The current version contains all the features below
as well as newer enhancements added prior to the latest
release.
See Feature Archives
for features added in other previous Pixel!FX
releases.
Features are grouped by topic or Pixel! application.
New Products
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- New product suite offers a complete set of imaging
tools in a single, integrated package for end-to-end,
UNIX-based image processing.
- Includes Pixel!SCAN, Pixel!EDIT,
Pixel!VIEW, Pixel!DB, Pixel!OCR,
Pixel!PRINT and Pixel!LZW.
- The Pixel!FX Deluxe suite is priced lower
than the sum of the individual components sold
at list price.
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- Automated color calibration, to be used with the
Mentalix Color Calibration Target, has been added.
- Color calibration generates a scanner-specific
profile that is saved to disk and reused with
each scan (unless disabled) until the scanner
is re-calibrated.
- Support for applying convolution filters (e.g.,
Unsharp Mask, Descreen or even a user-defined
filter) while scanning makes it even easier for
customers to scan and process their images in
one simple step.
- ADF support has been improved, with the added
capability to scan a fixed number of pages from
the document feeder.
- Support for scanning to database and scanning
to fax has been added.
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- Graphical objects can be added to images. The
graphical objects that are supported are: polylines,
polygons, rectangles, circles, ellipses, and text.
Line width is user-selectable.
- Graphics editing features allow you to selectively
change attributes, resize, move, raise, or delete
previously added graphics.
- The graphical objects are drawn in an overlay
plane, and are stored and retrieved from a separate
vector graphics file. The graphical objects can
be drawn in any color available for the image.
- Graphics can be "burned" into the image.
- Text graphical objects support 35 postscript fonts,
arbitrary rotation angles, and multi-line text.
- The following convolution filters have been added:
- Unsharp Mask
- Descreen
- Ringing
- Emboss
- Prewitt
- Diagonal
- Blur
- Smooth
- Sharpen
- Support for user-defined kernels has been added.
- Image stitching enables users to assemble two
or more images into a larger composite image.
- Paste from file enables users to create a selection
from another image file. This capability facilitates
image stitching.
- Multi-page editing support has been added to enable
easy assembly and manipulation of multi-page images
for document imaging, fax and database applications.
- Color quantization has been improved with introduction
of three additional algorithms: Optimal, Median
cut and Uniform. Both Optimal and Median cut offer
significant improvements over the previous color
quantization algorithm in terms of color quality.
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- Support for JPEG compression in TIFF files has
been added.
- Progressive JPEG and interlaced GIF are supported
to facilitate WWW page authoring.
- BMP import and export file filters added.
- Pseudo color postscript performance has been improved
with file sizes reduced by 66 percent.
- Support for multi-page postscript files has been
added.
- Ability to view image thumbnails and image size
details while you are using the Open dialog has
been added.
- Most loadable image file types are detected automatically.
- You can send and receive faxes directly from Pixel!FX
to most popular third-party fax applications.
- All '.jfif' extension uses have been changed to
'.jpg'.
- Support for user data type extensions has been
added to enable launching third-party applications
directly from the Pixel!FX Image Album
or Open dialog.
- Files in directory 'pfxdesk' in user's home directory
are automatically loaded at program start-up.
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- The new Pixel!DB application allows easy
storage, indexing, search and retrieval of thousands
of images.
- Pixel!DB supports an unlimited number of
read-only users and one read/write user at a time.
- Users can import single image files or entire
directories of images into Pixel!DB.
- Images can be imported by reference or copied
into the database.
- Database can be configured to automatically compress
images using lossy or lossless compression.
- Database can be configured to automatically execute
OCR (requires Pixel!OCR license) when line
art images are imported.
- Images scanned to database are stored directly
to file without being loaded into memory.
- Users can work with multiple databases simultaneously,
and can easily move images and associated textual
data between databases.
- Integration with Pixel!VIEW and Pixel!EDIT
allows easy modification and update of database
images.
- Each database record contains: image, title, user
filename, keywords, description, unlimited user-defined
notes and OCR data.
- Scroll through the image title list or click on
the image title to update the display of current
database record information including low resolution
(thumbnail) image and associated textual data.
- Search for images using textual query on any or
all associated textual fields.
- Easily review and edit your search results using
the query result image title list and image preview.
- Intuitive query interface allows you to easily
combine queries for more powerful search operations.
- Export group of images to a directory using image-specific
export file name and file type.
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- A new version of the OCR engine has been integrated.
- The user interface has been improved to display
the image on the OCR dialog.
- Zone support has been added, including automatic
Zone decomposition, Zone typing, Zone editing,
and Zone ordering.
- Zone typing allows the user to restrict zones
to one of the following types:
- ANSI
- Lowercase (a ... z)
- Uppercase (A ... Z)
- Alpha (a ...z A ... Z)
- Digit (0 ... 9)
- Alphadigit (a ... z A ... Z 0 ... 9)
- Numeric (0 ... 9 $+-%/=.,)
- Fixed Length Expression
- Word List
- Fixed Length Expression allows users to specify
expressions (e.g., phone numbers, area codes).
- Word List allows users to specify a file name
that contains a list of allowable words to appear
in the zone.
- Load and Save settings are added to enable forms
processing.
- Support for performing scanning and OCR in one
step has been added.
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- Working with TIFF LZW and GIF image formats now
requires a Pixel!LZW license. This license
is required to satisfy Mentalix's license agreement
with Unisys.
- Pixel!PRINT is now licensed as a separate
add-on product, rather than being included in
Pixel!FX. It is included with the new,
comprehensive Pixel!FX Deluxe suite.
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