Danish Imaging Software Looks Delicious
Danish Imaging Software Looks Delicious
February 1, 2006: The Danish software company Yawah has moved its image management software eRez up to version 3.2 bringing a new FSI viewer, support for XMP metadata and thumbnails, and improved support for TIFF files over 2Gb.
eRez 3.2 Imaging Server is a specialised set of image management tools which, the company claims, eliminates time-consuming tasks when preparing and distributing images for different media, such as the internet or professional printing.
Yawah say that eRez 3.2 includes a number of features to make publishing your image libraries on the web easier. For example, it includes an embedded, Java-based search engine that performs high-speed indexing, content searching in text documents, sorting of search results by relevance and multi-page result displaying.
Version 3.2 also features a new ‘Publish to Web’ function that enables quick and easy publishing of images on the Internet as a single image, a collection of images, a Flash slideshow or Flash Based Single Source Image Viewer (FSI) showcase.
This also makes space for another new feature, the eRez 3.2 is the PDA/Smart Phone interface. Images taking up gigabytes of server space can be browsed and viewed from any 3G, GPRS or GSM enabled mobile phone.
eRez is not just an imaging program however. It also automatically monitors the shared folders and keeps the database updated when new files are added, changed or deleted. It can be integrated into any web based solution, such as a Content Management or Digital Asset Management System.
eRez was recently used by NASA as part of The Blue Marble Next Generation Project. For the project, satellite photographs of earth were collected over twelve months to illustrate global seasonal changes and the impact of forest fires and natural disasters.
The finished project eventually consisted of 120 gigabytes. Serving this much image data over the Internet is a formidable task. eRez has made it possible for these images to be browsed quickly and easily via any web browser.
"NASA contacted us a few months ago and asked outright if our software could handle 120 Gigabytes. That's nearly 50 times our previous record, which was also a NASA image of the Earth.” says Kristian Ottosen, proprietor of YaWah.com. “We accepted the challenge, which in fact only entailed a few tweaks to our software - and, of course, lots of room on the server."
eRez 3.0 is available now.
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