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  Western was founded in 1995 to produce a high quality machine vision and image processing software product that was easy to use and extendable; and to do it at an affordable price. We created our flag ship product HLImage++ to achieve that goal.  
     
  Since 1995, HLImage++ has been used all over the world: from Chicago to China, from Texas to Thailand, from Salt Lake City to Seoul, from the University of Utah to the UK, and from the north peak of Alaska to the land down under.

Our customers range from the largest companies in the world like Las Alamos Labs, Satake Research, Hughes Aircraft, Pizza Hut, Kodak, GE, Texas Instruments, IBM, NASA, the US Army and Air Force, the FBI, the Mexican Government, and to small system integrators; just to name a few.

HLImage++ has analyzed the Alaskan Pipe Line for corrosion. It has helped the leading medical organizations such as  Massachusetts General Hospital and Yale Medical School. It has been used in mammography, the study of eye disorders, and hip replacements. It has been used in automotive inspection to helping produce the styrofoam cups you drink from each day. It has inspected food products from pizza to ham to potatoes to burgers. It has measured nano-clusters to galaxies. It has inspected tobacco leaves to timber. It has inspected circuit boards to chips to electron images  to wafers. It has inspected spray-patterns of spray-nozzles to springs. It has measured contact angles of liquids to the rail roads of the US. It has helped automate the automated guidance of automobiles to the inspection of dinosaur bones. It has inspected the anatomy of the human skull in evolution theories to the inspection of CCD camera chips. It has helped route circuit boards in automated circuit board machines to cutting cow hides for leather clothing. It has inspected, tracked, and counted beans and seeds, roaches, and cow parts. It has been used for ID badges for security. It has inspected disk-drive-heads to coils and metal rods to weld-joints. It has been used in the field of Volcanology to the study of Morphometrics. It has inspected the 'Copley Stone' to the quantification of void sizes. It is being used to analyze x-ray images for critical and top-secret parts at the Las Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

HLImage++ has also been privately licensed by large fortune 500 companies to small startups; and it is the foundation to well known imaging software packages of today and yester-year. It has generated revenue for those and other companies in the millions of dollars.

HLImage++ has been taught in the university classroom and is also in wide usage by several of the top universities around the world: from the University of Thailand to the Queen's University of Belfast, from the Florida State Seminoles to the Florida Gators, from Michigan State to Ohio State, from Wayne State and Penn State to Southwest Missouri State, from Yale and Stanford to Purdue, from the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech to Clarkson, from Rutgers and McMaster's to George Town University, from the U-of-Utah to the U-of-Hughson, from the U-of-Maryland and Minnesota to the U-of-Texas and Tennessee,  from the U-of-Washington to the U-of-New Hampshire, and many more...

 
 

Have we accomplished our goal?

We will let you decide.

In the mean time, here is a few words from some of our most cherished customers

 
 

(and our thanks to them for their kind words):

 
 

"Once, again, nothing but praise for your company's software package.  It's been a great help to us!"

 
   

John Ebersole, Creative Optics, Inc.

 

 
 

"The HLImage++ API is very straight forward and useful tool. It will save lots of my time."

 
   

Soonsung Hong, Dept. of Materials Science and Mechanics, Michigan State University

 

 
 

"We use HLImage extensively for analyzing field-ion microscope images of nanometer size Au clusters.  The blob analysis tool supplied with the software has been invaluable for this, enabling us to match simulated images to experimental images.  We also use the picture tool to grab images from video tape, and it is much more powerful and intuitive to use than other programs we have used in the past, as are the other tools. All in all, it's a great package."

 
   

Dr. Dan Lovall, Purdue University

 

 
 

"Congratulations on a truly first rate product! (and what's more - one that I can afford on my limited budget). Keep up the good work!"

 
   

Evan Bossett, Rutgers University

 

 
 

“I've been trying a copy of the HLImage++ software and find it to be very well designed to meet our needs in performing imaging experiments. The variety of tools and the ease of using them is remarkable. I personally believe that the idea of using independent tools which can be modified and linked together is the only right way to implement software for doing scientific research, where one hardly knows what he'll need to try the next day”.  Sincerely yours,

 
   

Sergey M. Dzekunov, Dept. of Chemistry, Georgetown University

 

 
 

"I make money by using products that work quickly, and a lot of the products I see don't perform the way they are advertised. HLImage++ really works. Its flexibility is unsurpassed in the industry”.

 
   

Jim Saudargas, Concepts In Computing

 
       

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