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1997

The Visual RetrievalWare Software Developers Kit (SDK) provides tools for writing programs that manipulate digital image files and their visual contents. It provides APIs for processing images, including: loading, saving, cutting, pasting, rotating, scaling, dithering, quantizing, enhancing, analyzing, and more. Functions are provided to reduce an image to a condensed descriptor called a feature vector, which can then be indexed and cross referenced to the image itself. Visual RetrievalWare's literal image content matching ability can be useful for a vast range of enterprises, including fingerprint, face, and character recognition applications, photo or video cataloging, as well as quality control, surveillance, template matching, and many other machine vision applications.