GoldenThread NXT Software by Image Science Associates is an image quality analysis platform (for Windows) used in digital archiving and cultural heritage digitisation. GoldenThread has been designed as a tool to communicate image quality standards within the digital archiving industry. The goal is to eliminate waste, sub-quality products, frustration and strained partnerships caused by the current maze of image quality specifications.

The GoldenThread NXT software, with the correct target, enables the following in one single frame capture:
— Excellent colour profiling (168 unique patches) with Argyll (free) profiling software
— Distortion measure
— Lighting uniformity measure
— Rastering and banding measure
— SFR, color misregistration, etc. measures
— Horizontal & Vertical dimensional scales (metric and English)

The Image Science Associates GoldenThread NXT System:

—Analyses, Reports, and Remediates Image Capture Performance
—Analyses FADGI 19264 target including other ISA targets
—Can create colour profiles with Argyll or SpectraCore libraries and converts results to AD98, sRGB, ProPhoto, eciRGB colour space results.
—All-in-One FADGI star level displays with selectable color spaces
—Has selectable RGB or Colorimetric performance reporting
—Can produce context based FADGI star level reports.

This GoldenThread System includes:
• GoldenThread NXT analysis software and standard support (for Windows).