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 Introduction to ImageMagick
 
-  ImageMagick®, http://www.imagemagick.org, is a software suite to create,
-  edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in
-  a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,
-  PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to scale,
-  flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image
-  colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons,
-  ellipses and Bézier curves.
+  ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert
+  bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over
+  200) including PNG, JPEG, JPEG-2000, GIF, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript,
+  PDF, and SVG.  Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort,
+  shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special
+  effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
   
   The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command
   line or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite
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   that includes memory and thread error detection to prevent security
   vulnerabilities.
 
+  ImageMagick is available from http://www.imagemagick.org/download to
+  download. It runs on Linux, Windows, Mac Os X, iOS, Android OS, and others.
+
+  The authoritative ImageMagick web site is http://www.imagemagick.org.
+
+
 Features and Capabilities
   
   Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
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       * Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas.
       * Generalized pixel distortion: correct for, or induce image distortions
         including perspective.
+      * Computer vision: Canny edge detection.
       * Morphology of shapes: extract features, describe shapes and recognize
         patterns in images.
       * Motion picture support: read and write the common image formats used in
         digital film work.
       * Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image
         channels.
+      * Connected component labeling: uniquely label connected regions in an
+        image.
       * Discrete Fourier transform: implements the forward and inverse DFT.
+      * Perceptual hash: maps visually identical images to the same or similar
+        hash-- useful in image retrieval, authentication, indexing, or copy
+        detection as well as digital watermarking.
+      * Color management: accurate color management with color profiles or in
+        lieu of-- built-in gamma compression or expansion as demanded by the
+        colorspace.
       * High dynamic-range images: accurately represent the wide range of
         intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from the brightest direct
         sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows.
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       * Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread safe and most
         internal algorithms are OpenMP-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups
         offered by multicore processor chips.
+      * Distributed pixel cache: offload intermediate pixel storage to one or
+        more remote servers.
       * Heterogeneous distributed processing: certain algorithms are
         OpenCL-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups offered by executing in
         concert across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and
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   http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/: a plethora of command-line scripts
   that perform geometric transforms, blurs, sharpens, edging, noise removal,
   and color manipulations.
+