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San Jose, CA (PRWEB) December 04, 2012

Equalis, the leading provider of numerical analysis, visualization and simulation solutions for engineers and scientists, built on the Scilab open source platform, today announced the availability of its Advanced Image and Video Processing module. This sophisticated new capability was developed in collaboration with Equalis’ partner, Trity Technologies, based in Malaysia. It is included as part of the Equalis Pro Plus solution.

The Equalis Advanced Image and Video Processing Module is an important module for Scilab users as it enables users to perform powerful image and video processing tasks efficiently and is seamlessly integrated within Equalis environment. With over 120 functions, applications such as filtering, image analysis and statistics, image enhancement and restoration, image registration and image fusion, image transforms, morphological operation, and many others, together enable high level image detection and processing to be performed within the same environment. Additionally, video files and cameras can be managed and manipulated, allowing users to perform soft real-time video processing. This provides Equalis users a flexible environment to explore design ideas and create unique solutions for imaging and video systems.

Equalis provides premier software modules on top of the Scilab open source platform and industrial grade support through subscription programs; typically costing 90% less than purchasing equivalent software applications. Training, deployment and consulting services are also available for a fast start. Equalis’ premier modules include: Code Generation, Communications, Connectivity, Control and Power Systems, Fixed Point, Instrument Control, Neural Networks, Thunder and Lightning (Parallelization), Signal Processing, SoftCruncher (software performance enhancement), and many more.

Equalis Pro Plus solution is available with prices starting at just $995 per user. Existing Equalis Pro Plus subscribers can download these new capabilities from the company's customer portal.

"With the introduction of our newest module, Advanced Image and Video Processing, we continue to provide compelling functionality integrated into our solution suite all for one low price,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO and Co-founder, Equalis. "These new capabilities further enrich our solution and allow our customers to tackle problems in the rapidly emerging fields of computer vision, image and video processing.”

“We are excited to further enhance our partnership with Equalis in the development of this exciting solution,” said Gary Yang, Business Development Director of Trity Technologies. “As Equalis Pro Plus is being adopted in the industry, we are pleased to supplement these customers by adding Advanced Image and Video Processing functionality under the same and easy to use integrated environment.”

About Trity Technologies
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Trity Technologies is a premier provider of technology solutions in South East Asia and has extensive experience in providing Scilab training and deploying Scilab solutions to leading government research centers, government agencies and multinational corporations and academic institutions. With more than 30 years of combined numerical computation experience, we have developed and implemented a comprehensive program for supporting Scilab users. These programs are supported by a range of training, premier Scilab features, technical support and consulting around the Scilab platform. For more information, please visit http://www.tritytech.com.

About Equalis
Equalis is the leading provider of numerical analysis, visualization and simulation software solutions for engineers and scientists based on the world’s leading open source numerical computation platform, Scilab. Our solution provides more functionality and more flexibility at a fraction of the cost of other solutions, and is used for optimization, signal processing, control systems, embedded systems, test and measurement, and much more. By providing rich features and a complete range of services, it meets the production needs of industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy, manufacturing, semiconductor and others. Having been downloaded over 3,500,000 times, Scilab is used extensively throughout the world in both industry and research, including companies such as: ArcelorMittal, CNES, EDF, IDT, LeCroy, and Peugeot, to name a few. For more information, please visit http://www.equalis.com.

Press Contact
Trity Technologies
Gary Yang
gary(at)tritytech(dot)com
(+603) 8063 7737

Equalis
Neil Mitchell
neil(at)equalis(dot)com
408-912-1686

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If you like this idea, though, you don’t have to limit yourself to saving PDFs. Free Image Printer also adds a virtual printer to your PC, but takes the next logical step of supporting more formats, allowing you to also save your print jobs as HTML, XLS/ XLSX, MHT, RTF, and a host of image types: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, WMF, EMF and more.
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With that out of the way, though, Free Image Printer proved straightforward and easy to use. Just open a file in your application of choice, click Print, choose the Free Image Printer driver, and within a second or two your document will appear in a simple multi-page viewer.
To save your document, all you then have to do is choose the relevant format from the Export To list, and fine-tune it by configuring whatever options are available. So if you choose PDF, say, you can decide whether you want to convert images to JPEG, and what their quality could be, as well as setting a password, applying other security restrictions, setting metadata and more.
If you want to email that document, though, you can alternatively click “Email As”, choose the same format and options, and your email client’s “New message” dialog will appear with the file already attached.
And you get a Print button, too, useful if you’d like a real printed copy of the document as well as an electronic version.
Free Image Printer won’t be for everyone, of course. The program doesn’t offer as much control over your finished PDF file as more specialist tools, for instance. And actually creating the file requires several more clicks. You’ll need to dismiss an ad for another one of the author’s programs, select the export type you need, and then choose the configuration options, each and every time (the program doesn’t save your preferences beyond the current session, so if you select Image output, say, PNG will be displayed as the default, even if you selected JPEG last time).
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