Imaging Software Glossary: Terms & Concepts: I
The imaging software glossary provides definitions for document and web imaging, in addition to terminology specific to Snowbound Software’s imaging technology.
| IFF | The Amiga Interchange File Format (IFF) is used to transfer documents to and from Commodore Amiga computers for native bitmap formats. It allows images and text to be stored inside the file. |
| Image Format | Image format refers to how the image is saved. There are a wide variety of formats used today ranging from proprietary to standard formats. Proprietary formats are specific to an application, company, or industry (i.e. AFP) and standard formats are note (i.e. JPEG). Snowbound's products support over 100 image formats including proprietary formats. |
| Image Processing | Image processing includes the steps involved in getting an image uploaded to a computer, modifying, printing, and saving it as a digital image. Image processing functions include resizing, sharpening, brightness, and contrast. |
| Image Repository | An image repository is a central place where images are stored and maintained. A repository can be a place where multiple databases or files are located for distribution over a network, or a repository can be a location that is directly accessible to the user without having to travel across a network. Snowbound's VirtualViewer web viewers enable users to easily access, view, convert, manipulate, annotate, and print document and image formats within the repository through a single universal viewer. |
| Image Viewer | An image viewer is an application with the ability to automatically detect and read image formats. The application usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth and display resolution. Snowbound offers VirtualViewer web viewers that are ready to integrate with existing applications. Viewers can also be created using Snowbound's RasterMaster Imaging SDK. |
| Imaging Applet | The imaging applet is an image viewer in which the application for viewing, manipulating or converting images is built as a Java applet. This enables users to perform these functions through a standard Web browser. Snowbound offers a stand alone imaging applet and an applet/servlet combination within its VirtualViewer product family. Applets can also be created using Snowbound's RasterMaster Imaging SDK for Java. |
| Imaging Toolkit | The imaging toolkit is an SDK designed specifically to build image and document viewing or conversion applications. It gives developers the necessary library calls and features so that they can build functionality into their application including viewing, conversion, manipulation, printing, saving, annotation, redlining, text extraction, and scanning. Snowbound's RasterMaster Imaging SDKs are available for a variety of platforms including Java, Windows, .NET, and UNIX. |
| IMNET | The IMNET G4 compressed format is a medical image format. Snowbound's RasterMaster Imaging SDKs support IMNET. |
| Indexed Color Image | An indexed color image is an image which does not define colors in terms of their actual RGB or CMYK values and which derive its colors from a “palette” known as “Indexed Color”. Because the palette is limited to a maximum of 256 colors, they are not considered “true color”. Colors in the palette are referenced by index numbers which are used by the computer to identify each color. |
| Interleave | Interleave defines how data is arranged in memory. For instance, an RGB image may have the following pixel arrangements (every 3 characters of ‘R’,’G’, or ‘B’ is one pixel): Pixel Interleave: RGBRGBRGB, RGBRGBRGB, RGBRGBRGB Raster Interleave: RRRGGGBBB, RRRGGGBBB, RRRGGGBBB Frame Interleave: RRRRRRRRR, GGGGGGGGG, BBBBBBBBB. Interleaving arranges data in a noncontiguous way to increase performance. |
| Internal Format | The internal format is the way the data is stored inside the system. All RasterMaster products import and convert file formats to Snowbound's internal format at decompress time. The format is a simple uncompressed DIB format stored in memory. This format is decompressed or imported and can be saved out to any supported format. |
| Invert | For a 1-bit image, inverting changes all black pixels to white and all white pixels to black. |
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