News and Announcements

Atalasoft Pledges $12,000 for WNEC Scholarship

TomLewis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:59:00 GMT

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's Steve Hawley Named 'Top Coder' by Mass High Tech Jounral

TomLewis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:06:00 GMT

In the July 6-12, 2007 issue of Mass High Tech, the Journal of New England Technology, Steve Hawley, Atalasoft's Chief Architect, was profiled as a 'Top Coder'. Read the entire article HERE.

Atalasoft's June 2007 Newsletter - Inspector Twain/Focus Group/New White Paper

TomLewis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:23:00 GMT

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's May 2007 Newsletter - See You At Tech Ed

TomLewis — Sat, 12 May 2007 17:48:00 GMT

Atalasoft @ Tech Ed 2007, June 4-8: Are You Going?

Come meet us at Tech Ed in Orlando, booth 1329. We will be running demos showcasing the advanced capabilities of DotImage v5.0 and its add-ons. We will be giving away limited-edition t-shirts, Zunes, DotImage Photo SDKs (a $500 value!) and other Atalasoft collectibles! It's a great opportunity to meet you and find out about how you are using our products and how we could serve you better. If you would like to set up an appointment with us please send an email to Sales

Join Our Focus Group - Get An Amazon Gift Certificate!

Atalasoft is looking at developing a product that enables viewing documents on the web without programming. A number of participants will be selected for a focus group to 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 will be appreciated.

Focus Group Signup

New Product Demos Online and New Features

Atalasoft has updated and added several demos to the website, please look them over:

Updated AJAX Multipage TIFF Demo

New Interactive Web Annotations Demo

An entire gallery of ASP.NET Video Demos

What's New in DotImagev5.0 Video Demo (link at top of page)

New Feature Added post v5.0 Release:
Would you like to improve your application's thresholding/binarization capabilities? Please take a look at a new command introduced in DotImage Document Imaging 5.0a called DynamicThresholdCommand. It does an excellent job converting color and grayscale images to black and white, without the "hollowing out" effect that Adaptive Threshold could result in. We recommend changing your applications to use Dynamic Threshold from Adaptive Threshold when appropriate. It supports parallelizing for increased performance on multi-core processors using the new ThreadedCommand interface and is even slightly faster than Adaptive Threshold.

DotImage v5.0a Download

Thanks For Meeting Us At AIIM / Playstation 3 Winner

We had a great time at AIIM in Boston this year: met plenty of new and potential customers, received excellent feedback and feature requests, and hosted a very successful seminar on implementing AJAX for ECM and other business-critical applications. Seminar attendees were also entered in a drawing for a Sony Playstation 3 which was won by Manuel - congratulations Manuel, and many thanks to everybody who visited us and attended our seminar.

Atalasoft's April 2007 Newsletter - DotImage v5.0a Released + See You at AIIM in Boston

TomLewis — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:38:00 GMT

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

Full Feature List

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.

Atalasoft's Bill Bither Appears in Article on the Front Page of the 03/25/2007 Sunday Republican

TomLewis — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:45:00 GMT

The interview had happened, the photographer had come and gone a couple weeks ago but we didn't really know what was going to happen with the story that Atalasoft's founder and president, Bill Bither, had contributed to. What a pleasant surprise to pick up Sunday edition of Springfield's Republican and see Bill's head above the fold on the front page for an in-depth article, several column-inches long.

What had started out as a story about participation in the Regional Technology Corporation, of which Atalasoft is an active member, turned into a case study of a successful local technology company with Atalasoft as the subject matter.

After providing the writer with a lot of background information as well as Bill's business philosophy, we were unsure of what to expect. It was very encouraging to see how positively Bill's statements, and our company were positioned in the article. We hope that the article will give entrepreneurs in the area, as well as students in the region, more reasons to start a company here and help build a community of innovators and collaborators.

Here's one more link to the article.

Atalasoft Welcomes Lou Franco

Bill Bither — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:34:00 GMT

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.

Atalasoft at Job Fairs

TomLewis — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:43:00 GMT

The last couple of days, Atalasoft has been participating in a careers and internships fair at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. eClinicalWorks, one of our customers, was also there recruiting, and it was great to meet their represenatatives in person. After exciting delay caused by a fire alarm at the campus center the show got underway. From our understaniding there were about twice as many companies exhibiting this year than in 2005. Is this a sign that the economy really has improved?

We met dozens of qualified candidates for our fulltime and internship positions. We're hoping that some of the charismatic and energetic people we met over the last couple days will follow up with us and continue to show interest in our openings.

Next week Atalasoft will be at the Spring Jobs Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. We're looking forward to meeting more people so if you know any imaging gurus, or recent college gradautes in the region with the skills outlined in our posted job descriptions, send them our way. We won't be accepting applications after March 1st.

Blogging at Atalasoft

Bill Bither — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:36:00 GMT

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.

Founded in 2000, Atalasoft is a Small ISV providing imaging toolkits and components to companies worldwide. We specialize in Microsoft .NET imaging and emerging technologies in photo and document imaging. Atalasoft launched the first imaging toolkit specifically for .NET in August 2003, and we have been rapidly growing; doubling revenues and profits every year. We're known for providing our customers with top notch customer support and high quality, fast performing software that's very easy for developers to use and extend for their needs

You may also visit my personal blog, talking mostly of entrepreneurship and running a software company.

Please stay tuned for some very informative and useful material!