This gallery is where we post summaries of each application as they come out every day. To see the full descriptions of each application, click their thumbnail or title. To learn more about the imaging toolkit these apps were created with, visit www.atalasoft.com.

About Atalasoft's 31 Apps in 31 Days

#1: Get Motivated

"For this application, I wanted to show off the ability to use DotImage to generate rich image content on the fly in as simple a way as possible. In this case, I chose to create a motivational poster generator.  At its core, it is a simple concept: take an image, drop it on a black back ground and place some text.  There are other such generators on the web, but I wanted to put in some details that would set this apart.---"

#2: Atala Auto Rotater [updated May 7]

"The AtalaAutoRotater is as simple to use as it was to write.  This application looks at an image's rotational data and rotates an image if the camera took a picture while rotated.  It uses the Atalasoft.Imaging.Metadata namespace, specifically ExifTagID, ExifCollection, and a few other things to extract rotational data from images.  On your command, it uses that to rotate/flip the image with our RotateCommand() and FlipCommand() objects from the Atalasoft.Imaging.ImageProcessing.Transforms namespace."

#3: Product Box Generator 

"This application will generate a software package box image with up to three images for the front, side and top of the box.  Each image can be stretched to fit its area or centered with a background color."

 

#4: Batch Thumbnails

"This application is a command line tool for generating thumbnail images.  To use it, unzip the executable and run it from a command prompt.."

#5: Batch Watermarker

"...the cure to all your watermarking woes! With this application, you no longer need to spend hours toiling in Photoshop repeating the same action over and over again! Simply point the watermarker at a folder containing jpgs, configure your watermark in real time, and select Apply Watermark, and another folder is created containing all the images with your watermark applied.."

#6: TPS Cover Enforcement

"This app is a frivolous way to solve the general problem "how do I detect and act on the content of a scanned document"?

If you've seen the movie Office Space, you're well aware that all TPS reports are required to have a specific cover sheet.  I've written an application that does two things - first, given a folder it will find all TIFF documents within the folder and flag any TIFF wherein the first page is NOT a TPS cover sheet.  The second thing the application does is to insert a TPS cover sheet into files that are missing one."

#7: Scan Documents to Scribd

Just in time for the Scribd "Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest", here's a free application that can scan documents and upload them to your Scribd account. You can choose to OCR them first, so that your scanned documents will show up in search queries (courtesy of the Google Tesseract OCR engine). Now you can try to win a MacBook Air from Scribd with the scraps of paper lying around your office.

 

#8: Linked Viewers

This application demonstrates linking two viewer controls together; one working as the main viewer while the other provides an overview of the entire image, outlining the currently viewable area of the main viewer.

 

#9: Cloudscape Wallpaper Generator

This application demonstrates how to combine various DotImage commands to create an image of a cloudy sky, and set it as your own unique, randomly-generated wallpaper.

 

#10: JPEG Stripper

JpegStripper is a simple application that removes metadata from JPEG files.  This is one way to cut down on total file size without having to resort to more lossy compression.

 

 

#11: Document Icon Generator [updated May 14]

The Document Icon Generator will take the first page of your TIFF or PDF and fold it's corner over. The page is then skewed slightly and a shadow is applied. The second page is skewed slightly and placed behind the first. This process repeats until you end up with a single PNG that looks like a stack of paper was loosely placed on your desk. Very cool indeed! You can then use the image for anything your heart desires.

#12: Atalasoft Screen Cutter

 The Atalasoft Screen Cutter sits in your system tray waiting to spring to life. When you double-click it, it will put a gray transparency over your screen. Now just freehand draw a region, and when you let go of the mouse, the area you selected will be put as a PNG into your clipboard, ready for you to paste into an e-mail, IM or wherever.

#13: Image Difference Utility

"The Atalasoft Image Difference utility lets you see the difference between two images or all of the differences in two directories of images... Very useful for seeing changes to documents. You can see the differences as either a pixel map or have the utility animate the difference by quickly flipping between the two images." 

#14: Web PDF Library Search

The Web PDF Library Search Application allows you to quickly search a large library of PDF files stored on your web server. After it displays the results of your search you can simply click on a page number to be taken to that page. On that page the search text will be highlighted.

 

#15: OCR Selector Tool 

 "One of the things that I like about having an OCR engine at my fingertips is the ability to just throw it at things and see what happens.  This is just such an app and it really shows off how easy it is to build applications that are rich. 

The heart of this app is out DocumentViewer control that acts as a document image browser.  It provides a thumbnail view and an image selection tool.  From there, I can grab a section of the image and hand it off to the Tesseract OCR engine and see what I get out of it.  The resulting text is dropped onto the clipboard for pasting into another application."

 

#16: Web Captcha Generator

CAPTCHA is a method used to help prevent automated posting to website forms.  This web application demonstrates a simple way to generate a CAPTCHA image using DotImage.

Each time the page loads it will generate a new image to validate against.  Simply type in the characters and press ENTER to run a comparison.  It will return an indication of weather the text entered was correct or incorrect below the textbox.