Atalasoft's 31 Apps in 31 Days

Emageo Image Annotator (in WPF)

loufranco — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Congratulations to Stephen Ehlers at Emageo for winning our 31 Apps in 31 Days customer competition.

Stephen's used Atalasoft DotImage's Annotation controls in a WPF application to implement an application that can load, annotate, print and save annotated images.

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FlingScan - Searchable PDF Service

Bill Bither — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:44:00 GMT

Welcome to the final 31st of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Wow, we actually did it. 31 relatively useful applications in 31 days developed with DotImage.

This web application generates a searchable PDF from any standard image such as a multipage TIFF or JPEG. The searchable PDF is emailed back to you where you can save it to your file system and search the content with one of many PDF search filters available for Microsoft's Desktop Search or Google's Desktop Search.

Documents are only stored on our server's temporarily while it is being OCR'ed, it then deletes the document as soon as the email results are sent.

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Color Scheme Generator

loufranco — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:41:00 GMT

Welcome to the 30th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

This application will generate a color scheme for you based on an image. After you upload an image, it will generate you a list of the most common colors that are significantly different from each other. Then, you can click anywhere on the image to pick other colors. There are zoom tools so that you can pick the exact pixel you need.

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Greeting Card Generator

Elaine — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:06:00 GMT

Welcome to the 29th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

Forgot someone's birthday or anniversary and don't have time to run to the nearest store? Now you can generate your own card, using your own pictures. After all, it's the thought that counts!

This simple web application lets you upload your own images and messages, and since they are annotations on the page, you can move them wherever you want. You can generate a PDF from your card, which will let you print the card or save it for later.

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iPod Ad Generator

jacobl — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:33:00 GMT

Welcome to the 28th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

The iPod Ad Generator creates a silhouette image of you and your friends. First, take a picture of a backdrop. Second, take a picture of you in front of that backdrop doing something ~zany~. Open the iPod Ad Generator, follow the onscreen instructions and you'll have a great looking Silhouette Ad staring you! I recommend picking as solid of a background as possible and wearing clothes that counter that color. It might also be a good idea to put your camera on a tripod so that it doesn't move between shots.

Note: Your background and action photos must be of the same dimension and resolution. This should be easy since you'll be taking both with the same camera.

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PDF Image Grabber

loufranco — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:49:00 GMT

Welcome to the 27th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

The PDF Image Grabber allows you to take embedded images out of PDF Files. Simply open the PDF, choose the page, and then choose which image you want. Then click the Save button and pick a filename. The file saved will be the original image in the PDF at its original size.

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Simple Seam Carver

loufranco — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:51:00 GMT

Welcome to the 26th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

This is a simple implementation of Seam Carving based on Atalasoft DotImage. Open an image, set the target width, and then click the Shrink button. If you need to protect an area from being removed, click the "Protect Area" button and then click and drag a rectangle to protect.

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Image Processing Preview

Glenn — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Welcome to the 25th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

This application displays multiple image processing results around the main image, allowing for easy preview before committing to a processing command. Clicking on one of the previews will replace the current image in the center and run through the processing for each command against this new image.

To revert back to the original image, double-click the main viewer in the center or select “Revert To Original” in the File menu.

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CadCam to Tiff Converter

ascarb — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT

Welcome to the 24th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). This is Saturday's application! Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

I think every image should be in the tiff format. My contribution to get the rest of the world on board with this idea is a Dwg2Tiff converter. It's a simple command line application, and you use it thusly:

C:\Program Files\Atalasoft\Dwg2Tiff_installer>CadCamDwg2Tiff <source CAD/DWG directory path> <output directory path> <Image resolution value>

Example:

CadCamDwg2Tiff C:\myDwgFileDirectory C:\DirectoryWhereMyGeneratedTiff_ImagesGo 300

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ThinDoc: Zero Footprint Full Screen Adobe-Free PDF Viewer

jacobl — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the 23rd of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

PDF is, by far, the most ubiquitous document format on the internet. Many sites, including our own, put white papers on the internet in Portable Document Format. Unfortunately viewing some of these documents requires downloading hundreds of pages and if you do not have Foxit or Adobe Reader, you've got to go download that too. Granted, in this day-and-age, that's highly unlikely.

Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a website that let me view PDFs in a no-download-required viewer? It would be even better if it let me change the links to the PDFs on my site so that my customers didn't have to download the PDFs either. Oh, and if that's not asking enough, it would be awesome if I had a bookmarklet that would make all PDFs open in that viewer by default at the click of a button.

Well, looks like all those prayers have been answered today!

Introducing ThinDoc: a Zero Footprint Full Screen PDF Viewer.

How to Use

Check out these documents:

Get the Bookmarklet:

Check out the ThinDoc: About page to learn how to get the ThinDoc Bookmarklet and open all online PDFs in ThinDoc.

Add this script to your site:

Add the following code to the end of any HTML page that contains links to PDF documents. This method only works if the link is pointing to files ending in "pdf". Due to some limitations of our blogging software, if you plan oncopying the script, I recommend you do so at the ThinDoc: Aboutpage.

<script type="text/javascript"> <!--

--> </script>

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ClickWord: Online OCR by Click

jacobl — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Welcome to the 22nd of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

This application is a great example of how you might be able to quickly leverage the words in a document in other applications. By simply clicking on words, ClickWord determines the text underneath your mouse and gets it ready for you to copy it with a CTRL-C key stroke. Very simple.

Check out ClickWord

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Slick Button Maker

loufranco — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:01:00 GMT

Welcome to the 21st of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

Do you have Web 2.0 button envy? Well envy no more, the Atalasoft Slick Button maker will make you one of those shiny buttons that will liven up any website. You'll be funded in no time.

Click the button below to get to the app

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Drag n' Drop Flickr Image Uploader

RickM — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:27:00 GMT

Welcome to the 20th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

Flickr is a well known photo sharing website. It has a huge community of both professional and amateur photographers who share photos and exchange comments about them. In order to support this community Flickr has a great number of tools available as well as a well documented API.

However, it can still be difficult to get files in non-standard formats up on to Flickr. For example, a camera's RAW format or a Jpeg2000 image would have to be converted before being uploaded. With a large set of files which vary in format this can turn into a huge chore. This app is designed to take the pain out of getting photos in all kinds of formats up onto Flickr.

Instructions:

1) Follow the directions on the authenticate screen to log into your Flickr account.
2) Drag your image files onto the app. They will be automatically converted if Flickr does not support the format.
3) Select the Set you wish to upload the pictures into from the dropdown box. If you would like a new set just type it in. It will be created for you.
4) Set appropriate Title, Description and Tag information for each picture by selecting it and changing the fields in the property window. The photo information is actively updated as you type.
5) Select the files you wish to upload and click Send Selected to send just some of the files. Alternatively, you can click Send All and all of the photos in the window will be uploaded. These files will be automaticly put into the Set you previously selected.

In building this App, I used the FlickrNet API for authenticating and uploading files to Flickr.

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To be able to compile this program on your own, you will need to register with Flickr in order to obtain an api key and a shared secret.

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Capture to the Cloud using Amazon S3

Bill Bither — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:31:00 GMT

Welcome to the 19th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

Cloud Computing has been getting quite a bit of buzz these days. All the major software vendors are talking about it. Amazon is the pioneer with their AWS (Amazon Web Services). Amazon has a very inexpensive storage platform called S3 that lets anyone who signs up store data in their cloud for incredibly cheap. Pennies per Gigabyte per Month.

After creating your own AWS S3 account, you can use this application to retreive documents from your own S3 bucket, and capture documents using a scanner directly into the same bucket.

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PhotoMosaic Generator

Elaine — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:43:00 GMT

Welcome to the 18th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.

Have you seen photomosaics before? An overall image, generated by hundreds, perhaps thousands of smaller images.

We put the ability into your hands. Load an image, and point to a folder containing the images you want to use to make up the larger image. The generator will analyze your image in tiles, using our MosaicCommand to determine the overall color of the tile, and then compare that tile to the images in your collection. If an image in your collection has a comparable color, using our OverlayCommand, that image is placed over the tile.

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