Specifications

Specifications

Supported Raster Formats

Raster formats: TIF, RLC, CIT, BMP, JPG/JPEG, JP2/J2K, PCX, CAL, ECW, C4, TG4, CT4, T4, MrSID (SID), CG4, GP4, MIL, PNG and PDF;
WORLD and TAF geo-files support;
Multipage TIFF and multipage CIT support;
Georeferenced TIFF support.

Import

AutoCAD DWG, DXF files, Adobe Portable Document Format ( PDF ), Microstation DGN files, HPGL/2 plot files, ESRI Shape files ( SHP ).

Export

AutoCAD DWG, DWF, DXF files, Adobe Portable Document Format ( PDF ), Microstation DGN files, HPGL/2 plot files, ESRI Shape files ( SHP ), MapInfo.

WiseImage Document

Unlimited document workspace;
Modelspace and plot layouts;
Coordinate System options, UCS creating commands, UCS icon;
Unlimited number of loaded monochrome, grayscale, and color raster images;
Storing raster images in a document file as embedded and separate files;
Rectangular and polygonal clip on raster images;
Controlling the objects display order;
Using document templates;
Auto-saving and recovering, Black-box tool.

User Interface

Multi-document interface (MDI);
Inspector window that shows and lets users to modify WiseImage object properties;
Templates for saving the settings for all tools for further use;
Various display modes, previews, named views, Full Screen Mode;
Customizable menus and toolbars, Individual customization of any command environment;
Libraries for vector, raster, and hybrid graphics;
Command Line with interactive keywords and mathematical processor;
Custom User Profiles to store and switch all Interface settings.

Scanning

TWAIN scanners support, direct support for Contex, Graphtec and Colortrac SmartLF scanners.

Printing

Creating layouts with viewports;
Printing with Preview.

Automation

Images Auto Correction – tuning and performing a customizable set of commands;
WiseImage Open Architecture: Jscript, VBScript;
COM interface;
WiseImage Batch;
WiseImage Script language.

Raster Editing

Automatic and manual deskewing;
Image rotating by an arbitrary angle; mirroring; cropping;
Changing an image size and resolution;
Converting to RGB, grayscale, 8-bit indexed;
A wide choice of filters to correct monochrome, grayscale, and color raster images;
Tuning the brightness, contrast, and color balance of an image; automatic and manual correction by histogram; Gamma correction;
Image palette editing; Color reduction;
Drawing and erasing of raster lines with a specified width and color on monochrome, grayscale, and color raster images; flood filling of closed contours;
Pixel drawing and flood filling;
Binarization of color and grayscale images; Various Binarization methods;
Layering of a color image by a specified number of monochrome raster layers.

Calibrating

Calibration of monochrome, greyscale, and colour raster images;
Simultaneously calibration of multiple images;
Calibration by grid and/or by a set of calibration pairs;
10 calibration methods including affine, bilinear, spline, and polynomial with an automatic choice of optimal calibration method;
Calibration accuracy pre-estimation;
Four-point correction to eliminate trapezoid and projective distortions.

Handling Symbols

Tracing and selecting of raster symbols;
Training the program to recognize raster symbols;
Creating the libraries of symbols for recognition;
Searching and replacing of raster and vector symbols.

Hybrid editing

The use of vector techniques for selecting hybrid WiseImage objects;
Selecting hybrid objects and areas within a window and polygon; crossing window and polygon; fence; selecting isolated raster objects; selection by brush and vector contour; various selection modes; wise selection of particular objects;
The properties and geometry of raster objects;
The use of vector techniques to edit raster lines, arcs, circles;
Editing of object geometry using grips;
Rasterizing vectors to monochrome, greyscale, and colour raster images;
Merging monochrome, greyscale, and colour raster data;
Objects moving, copying, duplicating, rotating, scaling, and mirroring;
Objects aligning;
Duplicating objects by vector line, arc and circle;
Exploding complex vector objects;
Breaking objects at specified points;
Extending vectors to specified edges;
Cropping vectors by specified edges;
Correcting vectors intersection;
Arranging polyline elevations with 3D view support;
Polyline edit mode – closing, adding, removing, vertex moving, modifying a curve, joining polylines.

Precise drawing tools

Snapping to the characteristic points of raster and vector objects with display of snap type markers and tool tips;
Object Snap Tracking mode to snap relative to directions and object nodes;
Polar snap; orthogonal snap; snapping to grid; fixed moving step.
Orthogonal drawing.

Selection

27 area and object selection methods;
WiseObject selection;
Selection by filter;
Brush selection;
Selection by Contour.

Vector Objects

Drawing points, Lines, Circles, Ellipses, Polylines, Splines, Rectangles; Dimensions, Texts and Multiline texts;
Named blocks with attributes;
Custom Object attributes
Custom arrows (markers) and flood fill shapes;
Custom Line Styles;

Raster-to-Vector Conversion

Tracing

Tracing on color and monochrome raster images;
Converting raster data to vector objects with automatic recognition of object type and by specified templates;
Tracing arbitrary raster curves by polylines;
Recognizing a raster hatch;
Tracing modes with preserving, erasing, or smoothing of an original raster image;
Auto defining of the most probable polyline tracing direction;
Orthogonalization of polyline segments with specified or auto defined basic direction;
Line orthogonalization when tracing;
Auto defining of a raster entity width with assigning the resulted vectors width;
Distribution of obtained vector objects by layer and colour;
Autoextend option when tracing lines and arcs;
Outline tracing.

Automatic Raster-to-Vector conversion

Recognizing raster lines, arcs, circles, polylines, contour objects, hatches;
Recognizing the type of raster objects, arrows on lines and arc ends;
Auto defining of raster entities width with assigning the widths of resulting vectors;
Recognizing raster polylines on colour images;
Aligning vector segments to the orthogonal direction;
Recognizing raster symbols on bitonal images and converting them to their vector representations;
Distribution of vector objects by layer and color.

Text recognition

Recognizing the text in any orientation;
Training the program to recognize new symbols;
Reviewing and editing recognized texts;
External OCR support.

Vector Correction

Auto correction of vector objects obtained after recognizing, lines conjugation, angle alignment;
Polyline autocorrection;
Joining selected objects to a line, arc, circle, or polyline. Auto defining the type of an object that is the closest to the selected objects;
Collecting polylines.

Rasterization

Rasterization of vector objects to monochrome, grayscale or color images;
Raster Draw mode for creating raster objects.