With this program you can improve the quality of a scanned raster image. Prime takes a TIFF image as input, performs image processing functions and produces a new and improved image. Prime can handle large images (more than 10.000 x 10.000 +) pixels.
Prime contains a series of image processing functions. Each function has a set of user defined parameters. The functions are specially suited to extract information from the scanned image, but may also be applicable for image improvements. Prime is a tool to compose a sequence of image processing functions. This sequence may be saved and applied to process a large number of images.
Prime features:
Input:
- Raster image with formats (tiff, png, xpm, xbm, pcx, jpg, etc)
- Raster image may be binary, grey tone or color images
- Production line for batch processing
Functionality:
- Image processing functions (operators)
- Color handling
- Color separation: interactive multiple color samples, similarity adjustments, multiple colors extraction
- Contrast stretch: for grey tone images
- Color stretch
- Color mask
- Invert colors
- Color reduction: reduce a RGB image to a palette image (1-23 bits)
- Binarization
- Local threshold: convert color and grey tone image to binary image, tolerates large variance of color/ grey tone intensities in different areas
- Threshold: convert color and grey tone image to binary image, same intensity overall
- RGB match (binary image from a color)
- Noise reduction
- Remove pepper: removes small black areas (“dirt”) in binary images
- Remove salt: removes small white areas (“spots”) in binary images
- Rank filter: median, max and min filters in local area
- Anisotropic smoothing: intelligent smoothing filter (for smoothing ditering)
- Erode: remove pixels around black areas in binary images
- Dilate: add pixels around black areas in binary images
- Transformations
- Scale: uniform scaling of image
- Resample: change the resolution of the entire image (DPI)
- Rotate: uniform rotation of image
- Vertical, horizontal flip
- Crop: select a part of an image
- Stripecut (for scanning inspection)
- Interactive environment
- Open/save raster file, different output format options available
- Image shown in main graphic window and in user defined preview windows
- Compose a chain of operators and set parameters for each operator individually
- Test run the operator chain and view result in preview windows, Run step-by-step to optimize parameter settings
- Save and open an operator chain. Saved chain may be used for batch processing
- Batch processing: Process multiple images in batch using a composed operator chain
- Color handling
Output:
- Processed image (formats: tiff, png, xpm, xbm, pcx, jpg, etc)
- Operator chain for batch processing
Platform requirements:
- MS Windows/XP and upwards, LINUX Enterprise
- standard PC with sufficient RAM