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Introduction to PixEdit
PixEdit from Techsoft is an advanced raster-handling tool for Windows.
With PixEdit, you can perform advanced
multipage and multilayer monochrome and color
raster scanning, editing,
converting,
vectorizing, viewing and printing
documents stored in raster format.
PixEdit fits into almost any color or monochrome scanner installation
because of its automatic file format detector. All
popular scanners can directly be
addressed using PixEdit.
PixEdit features special manual threshold tools
for converting scanned gray-shade or color documents into monochrome
files. Documents that previously had to be redrawn due to low
readability can now be scanned, thresholded and stored in your
monochrome storage system.
Currently there are many standard file formats used by scanners and
programs in today's marketplace. PixEdit reads PDF as well as the
100 most common raster
file formats.
Panning a document is easy and PixEdit provides alternative ways to
maneuver around in a document. You can use the keyboard arrow keys, or
move the square in the overview window to a new location. The main
window updates the area enclosed by using the overview square. Software
from Techsoft contains Smoothpan technology
in order to provide maximum viewing comfort.
In addition to the overview window, you can optionally turn on the
Blowup window for fine-tuning the cursor in the
main window at high zoom factors. Traditional technology only provides a
pixel-step size equal to the current zoom factor in the main window.
PixEdit however features an automatic
step-reduction mechanism for single pixel accuracy even at very high
zoom factors in the main window. Optionally, PixEdit may issue a tick
sound when the automatic reduction gear switches to pixel accuracy
during high zoom factor digitizing.
All windows within PixEdit can be docked, zoomed, moved, or turned on or
off, to suit your editing needs. Click
here to view a screen dump of PixEdit.
Due to the large amounts of data in a scanned document, PixEdit features
both internal and external tile-on-demand storage methods. This ensures
a high processing speed, even when using a low bandwidth network. The
reason is that image tiles are fetched when they are needed, while a
background process fetches the remaining tiles. If a preview image is
present, this image is shown as soon as it is read from the file.
PixEdit then starts the background process to fetch the tiles. As the
user zooms in on details, the background decompression process is
temporary suspended while urgently needed tiles are fetched.
The result is high viewing comfort, reduced transient load on the
network and, most important of all, short decompression times even when
loading large image files over a slow network.
A toolbar for creating
and executing macros is available. Recorded macros can be replayed on
current page, on page ranges and on document batches using the
Batch Wizard
PixEdit contains a full graphical
tree-view of multi page documents complete
with ThumbTip™ Technology and support for
Drag&Drop page manipulation. The Document tree can also be used for
selecting page ranges for multiple page processing. Page ranges can also
be collected into chapters.
Interactive Guide. An Interactive Guide is like a combination
of a help system and a toolbox, and helps you with
performing and repeating complex imaging tasks.
Support for page
splitting and sorting is available, and
page Guidelines can be inserted to assist page
positioning and margin adjustments. Click
here for more information about the powerful
functions for multi page processing. Page Joining
is useful for making posters from multi page documents. PixEdit can show
all pages of a document merged together into a temporary
stack image to assist multi page positioning.
Some scanner models deliveres black borders
around each scanned page. PixEdit removes this unwanted graphics
automatically and crops the document.
Most functions found in the main menus can process page ranges specified
in their respective dialog box. Page ranges can be specified for
processing a combination of ranges including step parameters
( E.g every third page). A concept called Overlays is available.
Overlays are like layers, but unlike ordinary raster layers, a single
Overlay may be applied to a page range. The unlimited Undo/Redo system
in PixEdit is particularly advanced. You may undo/redo a single page
only, even if your last operation processed a page range.
PixEdit reads barcodes on scanned documents for
automatic filename generation and can send files by e-mail based on the
content of the bar code sheets. PixEdit can render
EXIF information during printout or into the picture itself.
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