Vivid-Pix RESTORE update supports more formats; metadata tagging and more

Vivid-Pix announced at the ACPL Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library, in Ft. Wayne, Ind., the new version of its AI-powered Vivid-PIix RESTORE photo and document restoration software. The largest genealogy research collection available in a U.S. public library, the ACPL Genealogy Center incorporates records from around the world, with a staff that specializes in genealogy.

Vivid-Pix has gained traction in the genealogy and photography hobbyist communities as a fast, easy and affordable way to improve faded photos and unreadable documents, such as letters, immigration records, newspaper clippings, postmarks, and birth, wedding, and death certificates, as well as other crucial photos and documents essential to the research and sharing of family history.

Features of the New version of RESTORE:

• EXIF and IPTC compliant metadata archiving: allows the user to see the history of the image, including info on the photographer or scanner, and add important information about the image and its content: people, place, historical insights, and more.
• Crop/Recalculate: selects a specific area of the image to quickly focus on small important or unclear sections and improve just those areas of the image.
• More image types: Fixes JPEG, TIFF, PNG, DNG, BMP, and RAW image files.
• Organizes, notates, and automatically saves original and new improved images.

“To further train genealogy librarians at our nations’ libraries, today we launched free, expert-led training at: https://vivid-pix.com/librarian,” said Rick Voight, CEO, Vivid-Pix. “Genealogy/family history is the second most popular hobby in much of the world, including the United States. In our current environment, people are spending more time focusing on the most important things in life – family, friends, and organizing their photographs. That’s why we think it’s important to make our software even better and help those that help us with our family history.”