New Online Knowledge Base and Forum
Launched!
Black Ice Software has recently launched a new
online Knowledge Base and Forum, which can be
accessed by anyone by visiting the following
webpage:
http://www.blackice.com/forum/index.php.
The
new Knowledge Base contains a collection of articles
compiled by our technical support team and have now
been made available to the public. New articles are
constantly added in an effort to assist developers
with their application development using the Black
Ice toolkits.
Additionally, the addition of an online forum to the
Black Ice website provides developers with a
mechanism to communicate with each other as well as
our technical support team, and to allow others to
benefit from their experiences. Developers can also
request source code samples and new features that
they would like to see in upcoming release of the
Black Ice development tools.
Processing a Very Noisy Fax
Using the Black Ice Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX’s
Filters and Effects, developers can add a wide
variety of image processing to their applications.
One
of the most commonly encountered scenarios where
image processing plays a key role is in fax image
processing. Since faxing relies on so many
variables (Sending and receiving hardware, phone
lines, fax protocols, etc.) there are many places
where noise and other undesirable results can
occur.
By
Using the Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX’s Filters and
Effects, developers can provide solutions to a
variety of scenarios.
For
Example:
The
image below was taken from a fax received in the
Black Ice Sales office, and contains a severe degree
of transmission noise, which is a common occurrence
in faxed documents:
(see Received Fax Sample)
The
received fax image can be greatly improved and
enhanced by using a single filter from the Black Ice
Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX. By applying a Binary
Opening filter using the following matrix:
(0,
0, 0,
1,
1, 1,
0,
0, 0)
all
of the fax transmission noise is removed from the
received image, resulting in a much cleaner image
(see Received Fax Sample After
Filtering).
