The following real world application is designed to teach you how to use DotImage by taking you through the development of a real world application, an enterprise document management solution.
Before You Begin
To complete this tutorial you need the following:
- DotImage 7.0 installed on your machine
- Visual Studio 2005
- .NET 2.0
Build an Enterprise 2.0 Document Management Solution with DotImage Document Imaging 6.0
Off the shelf document management solutions for your business may never meet all of your company’s requirements, can be painful to deploy, expensive to train your users on, and costly to license. Atalasoft’s DotImage Document Imaging enables .NET developers to quickly and easily build document management solutions that meet 100% of your company’s requirements with reasonable licensing, and with advanced Enterprise 2.0 features typically not found in off-the-shelf solutions.
This step-by-step tutorial demonstrates how to build an n-tier enterprise client-server document capture and viewing application in just a couple of hours.
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Building an application that captures documents from a scanner.
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Submitting those documents to a server via web services.
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Storing the document and associated metadata into a database.
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Viewing the documents in a zero footprint web-client.
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Adding collaboration features with web-based annotations support.
The tutorial consists of four parts, each of which constitutes a distinct phase of the larger project. Each part is broken down into a number of lessons. To get started on the tutorial, go to Tutorial: Capturing and Viewing Documents with a Scanning Client.