Atalasoft Pledges $12,000 for WNEC Scholarship 

Easthampton, MA – July 31, 2007 – Atalasoft, Inc. has agreed to contribute to an annual scholarship fund for Western New England College, WNEC, in Springfield, Massachusetts.  WNEC is known for more than 30 outstanding academic programs for men and women that are focused on turning individuals into leaders in their field and in their communities. 37,000 alumni of WNEC are working and living around the world.

Located in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Atalasoft, committed to helping develop Western Massachusetts as a technology region,  will donate $12,000 to the WNEC scholarship fund for strong candidates in the computer science discipline.

“I would like to thank Atalasoft for funding these scholarships,” says Ali Rafieymehr, chair, Computer Science and Information Technology at Western New England College. “Financial aid is so important to our students, and it is one of the priorities of the College’s current comprehensive campaign.” The goal of Transformations: The Campaign for Western New England College, is to raise $20 million by December 31, 2007. “Our department already has a close working relationship with Atalasoft. In fact, one of our students is completing an internship there. There is an increasing need for well-trained computer scientists in the global economy, and these scholarships will help prepare students for careers at outstanding companies such as Atalasoft,” says Rafieymehr, who is also an associate professor of computer science and information technology.

“Western Massachusetts is a region that needs to transition from collapsed manufacturing industries to a knowledge economy,” said Bill Bither, President of Atalasoft. “Local investment in computer science and information technology education is one of several required steps that need to be taken in order for this area to recover and to succeed. Atalasoft is eager to support area students who are interested in the kinds of programs that will support this progressive economy.” 

About Atalasoft
Established in 2000, Atalasoft is a software development corporation providing imaging libraries and products for authors of document processing and content management systems. Atalasoft’s products are used by Fortune 500 companies and innovators around the world.

Contact For More Information, Press Only:
Tom Lewis
Atalasoft, Inc.
116 Pleasant St., Suite 321
Easthampton, MA 01027
Phone: (866) 568-0129
http://www.atalasoft.com
tom.lewis@atalasoft.com

 Atalasoft Announces the Launch of Inspector Twain

Inspector Twain is a utility for testing compatibility of TWAIN drivers against the TWAIN 1.9a specification. Searchable report files are generated containing information about the driver, including an overview of driver features as well as detailed information on each capability supported by the device. You can browse the scanner reports collected so far or install Inspector Twain to submit your own scanner reports which we urge you to do.
Click Here to visit Inspector Twain

 Thank You Focus Group 1! Join Focus Group 2 - Get a $50 Gift Certificate

Many thanks to the participants of our first focus group - Atalasoft is looking at developing a product that enables viewing documents on the web without programming.

We're looking for participants for a second group: you will attend a webinar about this potential product and feedback will be solicited. Atalasoft will be compensating participants who provide feedback with a $50 Amazon gift certificate for less than an hour of time! Please go to the link below and sign up - your participation is appreciated.
Focus Group Signup


Thanks for Meeting Us at TechEd 2007 In Orlando - Zune Winners/SDK Giveaway

We had a great time at TechEd in Orlando this year: met plenty of new and potential customers, and received excellent feedback on our demos. Many thanks to the several dozen attendees who filled out our surveys, we hope you will enjoy your DotImage Photo SDKs that we gave away. Atalasoft also gave out 500 of our nifty '.NET Imaging with Muscle' t-shirts in order to randomly pick someone to give a Zune to every day: many congrats to Nate, Jerritt, and James who won the Zunes. Check out this blog post about our Zune giveaway and then this blog post about how Atalasoft was one of about 10 exhibitors out of hundreds who had their schwag featured at the Microsoft Virtual TechEd website.

Please Review Atalasoft's New White Paper on CodeProject

Atalasoft's Senior Architect, Lou Franco, has posted a white paper at the Code Project. This paper focuses on the assessment and decision process Atalasoft used when evaluating which technology to use in order to migrate its WinForms imaging controls to the web. We invite you to review the white paper and comment on it at the Code Project:

Case Study: Bringing WinForms Controls to the Web with AJAX

Atalasoft DotImage v5.0a Released With New DICOM and Color Extraction Add-Ons!

Atalasoft has completed development on v5.0a of DotImage, please download and evaluate version 5.0a and let us know what you think. Some major feature improvements and enhancements in v5.0a include:

• Added the ability to Decode DICOM images, including the JPEG2000 flavors
• Added a new ColorExtractionCommand that can be used to detect and extract color elements in a document
• Added a new Thresholding method called DynamicThresholdCommand which is similar to AdaptiveThresholdCommand but keeps dark homogeneous regions intact
• Added two new barcode symbologies, Australia Post (1-D) and Micro QR (2-D)
• Rubberstamp text now resizes to aspect ratio of annotation
• XMP Annotations Data can be written in DotImage v4.0 format
• Compression Event added to PDF Translator enabling JPEG2000 compression to be set
• Pages can be excluded from OCR translation with a new Translator property

Note: upgrading from v5.0 to v5.0a will require you to re-activate your SDK and server serial numbers.

If you have questions about upgrading your toolkit to version 5.0, or if you need an extension on your evaluation license, please contact Sales.

Get the Download HERE


Atalasoft @ AIIM in Boston: FREE AJAX Seminar / Win a Play Station 3

Come see us at Booth 3229 at AIIM. You can still register to get into the Expo for FREE here.

Atalasoft has been providing "AJAX" web controls for ECM applications since 2004, more than a year before the term was coined. We're still pushing the envelope of usability for the web, introducing the industry's first web-based document image annotation viewer with the release of DotImage Document Imaging 5.0

This year, at AIIM 2007 in Boston, Atalasoft will be pulling back the curtain and showing you how you can use AJAX in your Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems, Integrated Document Archive and Retrieval Systems (IDARS), or any web application that needs to view, edit, annotate, or manage document images such as TIFF and PDF. We’re hosting a FREE seminar titled “Bringing your Document Imaging Applications to the Web with AJAX” on both Tuesday, April 17th and Wednesday, April 18th at 1:00 p.m.

This presentation will be valuable to anyone interested in Document Imaging regardless of whether you are currently using any Document Imaging toolkits. As a bonus, by registering for the seminar you will be entered to win the Sony Play Station 3 (w/Blue Ray) that we are giving away at this show.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT AT THE SEMINAR NOW!


Atalasoft Will Exhibit at TechEd2007 in Orlando - June 4-8

If we can't meet with you at AIIM in Boston, then please keep us in mind if you plan to attend TechEd. Atalasoft will be demo-ing new products and features at the show and we would be happy to meet you in person to discuss how you use our products as well as additional features you'd like to see in our products.

If you would like to meet with Atalasoft at either AIIM or TechEd please contact Sales.

I would like to welcome Lou Franco to our development team here at Atalasoft, Inc.  Lou is a local resident here in Northampton, MA and a software development and management veteran who has delivered projects and products for NASDAQ, The Federal Reserve Bank of NY, the US Military and 800 of the top financial institutions in the world.  Lou holds multiple patents, and speaks about software development practices at our local Western Mass .NET Users Group, and other software development related events.

Lou will be working as Senior Software Architect, and will be in charge of new technology R&D, specifically working with WinFX and Windows Vista.  Expect to see Lou blogging about these technologies as he extends Atalasoft's imaging technology to the next generation Microsoft Windows platform.

First I'd like to introduce myself, Bill Bither, president and founder of Atalasoft.  In an effort to improve communication with our customers, as well as increase transparency, we have added a new blogging feature at Atalasoft.  In addition to this News and Announcements blog, where we will be announcing new releases, company, and product news, we have created a staff blog for all members of the staff where you may expect to see postings from select employees with regards to product information, new releases, marketing endeavors, trade show appearances, informal company news, programming tips, and other interesting personal and company information.