Perfect Pictures is gaining rapid and wide acceptance with
curators of small and large collections of photographs, art and artefacts, in government
departments and the private sector.
Perfect Pictures is a Window's application based on a powerful free text search engine that allows complex searches. The search engine incorporates Boolean Logic searching terms, and searches can be made across the entire image description database or restricted to a particular field. Each image description can have up to 50 user defined field names each variable length, except for the filename and title which are mandatory and fixed size.
Perfect Pictures has no practical limit to the number of images and descriptions that can be stored and retrieved. Approximately 20,000 images and descriptions per gigabyte of hard disk space or file server can be stored on a computer system. Images are displayed within two seconds on a 486 PC for the first image and almost immediately for subsequent images due a pre-emptive decompression routine in the program.
Perfect Pictures can be easily updated with new images as they become available or totally new image database libraries can be added to the system.
Photographs are digitised at medium resolution of 760 x 568 pixels in 16.7M colours. Slightly larger than a PC screen set at 640 x 480, images are displayed in full with borders at a PC screen setting of 800 x 600. Images are compressed using Compression Laboratories' JPEG compression routine, the fastest we could find that requires no special equipment or decompression card. The average file size of each image is approximately 50k which means images can be transmitted across a PC LAN to other viewers without overloading the network.
By working at medium resolution costs have been kept to a minimum; around $1.50 per image. These images are adequate for compository work, mock-ups, positionals and inhouse reference printing. This resolution is not intended for high quality printing and so a degree of copyright protection is provided for your valuable collection.
Photographs can be digitised at a higher resolution where high quality printing is required, however the file size of each image would make it impractical to store on-line. Two versions could be generated at the time of digitising: high and medium. The high resolution image would be stored off-line, CD or tape, and the medium resolution accessed via Perfect Pictures which would include a reference in the image description to the location of the high resolution image.
Perfect Pictures benefits and features:If you would like to know more about Perfect Pictures or any of our other services, ring Search Tech on +61 (02) 4721 1613, and ask for a Demonstration or Quotation.