DotImage 8.0 Released
A New Chapter in Quick, Powerful Imaging ECM Application Development
Note: We are releasing minor updates on a regular basis. To see the changes since the major 8.0 version, see this forum thread: http://www.atalasoft.com/cs/forums/16/ShowForum.aspx
Thanks to our hard working engineers as well as feedback from our customers, Atalasoft is proud to deliver the most powerful imaging toolkit for .NET to date. This page will help to answer some questions you may have regarding this new installment of DotImage.
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The New Features
These are the main additions to DotImage, though there are some smaller features, and lots of bug fixes - the full release notes explain more on those.
1. Barcode writing
There is a new SDK for writing barcodes onto images. It supports many 1-D and 2-D formats, and can work with and without DotImage.
2. Web thumbnail drag-drop
Drag and drop thumbnails in our web thumbnail control to reorder them.
3. Web annotations supports comments attached to annotations
There is a new type of annotation that allows you to attach comments to any other annotation. The comments are marked with the user and datestamp, and they allow end-users to discuss any annotation (or add more information to an annotation)
4. Store any annotation we support in a PDF as a standard Acrobat supported PDF annotations
Before 8.0, we had special annotations that you had to use if you wanted to store in a PDF. Now, you can store any of our annotations as a standard PDF annotation that can be read with Acrobat (or Reader or any PDF compliant viewer)
5. New control for DotTwain to make web-scanning very easy
DotTwain includes an ActiveX control that makes scanning from the web very easy. It has a JavaScript API, so that developers don’t need to know ActiveX to use it. It supports scanning and uploading images to the server. DotTwain is included in DotImage Document Imaging.
6. Silverlight controls 
We have Silverlight controls for viewing images, thumbnails, and for annotating images.
7. TWAIN 2.0 support including 64 bit
We now support the TWAIN 2.0 specification and have DotTwain builds for x64 machines.
For a full list of features, see release notes for all versions of DotImage.
The New Licensing
With the release of DotImage 8.0 also comes some new, more intuitive licensing. Here are the details:
1. SDKs, Developer/Build Licenses
To cut down on confusion and cost for licensing more than one developer, we have decided to discount purchases where more than one developer is licensed to use DotImage.
Each developer who calls DotImage assemblies must be licensed.
The basic pricing equation is [DotImage SDK for one developer] + [any additional developers for 1/3 the price of the SDK].
2. Server licenses
We still price server licenses (for deploying server applications) by the amount of cores, however we have simplified it to two options: Standard and Unlimited.
--Standard server licenses allow you to deploy to a server with a total of 4 CPU cores or less.
--Unlimited server licenses allow you to deploy to a server with any amount of CPU cores.
3. Maintenance
New purchases of our Atalasoft SDKs now include 12 months of maintenance. Maintenance is required for priority support and complimentary version upgrades.
Read more about our licensing agreement
The Same Great Support
Our in-house support staff are here to answer any questions you have, including 1-on-1 meetings to help get you started with DotImage. We have plenty of happy customers and will always do what we can to keep it that way. This will never change and we are even looking into more convenient ways to ask for help.
The Same Great Product
DotImage has been around for years and was the first .NET imaging toolkit to market in 2003. It featured the first AJAX-enabled web image viewer in 2004, the first web annotations controls in 2007, and it continues to break boundaries to this day. We always welcome your feedback, so download the new version and get started!
For a full list of features, see release notes for all versions of DotImage.
