RasterMaster® — Features

RasterMaster® supports all major document and image formats to deliver the most comprehensive imaging tools available on the market.

Our SDKs deliver a variety of standard features and functions as well as industry-specific options to meet all of your imaging requirements. 

Standard Imaging Features Include:

  • Smart APIs that allow each imaging function to operate on input of any format - no need for format specific API calls
  • Powerful APIs for decompression, viewing, compression, conversion, printing, scanning and saving
  • Support for strong name assemblies

Standard Viewing Features Include:

  • Anti-aliasing — for optimal display of documents and images
  • Fit to height or width
  • Flip X and Y
  • Rotation in hundredth degrees or in 90 degree increments
  • Scrolling — high speed
  • Display brightness, contrast and gamma correction
  • Display functions including zoom, rubber band zoom, pan and scroll
  • Thumbnails
  • Aspect ratio correction

Standard Conversion Features Include:

  • Auto detection of document and image formats
  • Automatic pixel depth conversion
  • Automatic color detection – identifies pages that are not using color so they can be saved in black and white to improve performance and save space
  • Convert in memory for higher speeds

Standard Manipulation Features Include:

  • Crop, paste and merge
  • Deskew and Despeckle image cleanup to remove noise from images without blurring edges
  • Scale-to-gray resizing for 1bit images
  • Bicubic interpolation resizing for color images
  • Border removal
  • Color reduction
  • Dithering functions
  • Image processing (Contrast, brightness, gamma correction)

Standard Printing Features Include

  • High-resolution printing (300-2400 dpi) including EPS and PCL output

Standard Saving Features Include:

  • Saving to multiple formats
  • Save as single or multi-page documents

Annotation, Redaction, and Watermarking Features:

Please Note: Annotation and Extraction are no longer optional…they are now standard in our SDKs 

  • Draw freehand or use standard ellipses (filled or regular), line, arrows, polygons (filled or regular), or rectangles (filled, highlighted, or regular)
  • Insert bitmaps
  • Merge the annotation with the image (“burn in” annotations and redactions)
  • Create multiple annotation layers (useful for securing data and information)
  • Redact - through filled rectangle (permanent or temporary partial image removal)
  • Apply watermarks such as date and time stamp, confidential disclaimers, and more either manually or through an automated function
  • Ability to resize objects and the annotation will remain linked with the underlying image
  • Rotate annotation data
  • Add sticky notes with text edit capability
  • Save annotations as separate files or merge them into a document permanently
  • Ability to read, edit and save IBM FileNet annotations

Extraction of Text and Formatting Data

Text and formatting data can be easily extracted from:

  • AFP
  • PCL
  • PDF
  • MS Word
  • MS Excel
  • RTF

OPTIONAL Features

In addition to the extensive set of standard features, additional optional enhancements are available for RasterMaster to further extend the functionality of the toolkit. NOTE: Not all options available for UNIX, please contact us for details.

Twain Scanning

To meet the needs of customers who require access to Twain devices, including cameras or scanners, from within a Java applet or application, Snowbound provides a Twain scanning option to work with RasterMaster. This option includes a Windows resident DLL that interfaces between the Java client and the Twain device allowing control of the scanner.

AWT/SWING Support

The AWT/SWING format(s) are available as an optional format for the RasterMaster SDK. Please contact us for more information.