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07/20/2011

This guide will take you through setting up a basic web page containing an embedded Web Document Viewer and displaying an initial document in it.

06/15/2010

PDF can have a lot more than just images in it. It has metadata and can also store annotations and recognized text. PDF viewers are everywhere. These are some things you should think about putting in your capture and viewing workflow.

04/18/2010

PDF documents may include a tree of bookmarks that can be added to a document. Using the Atalasoft OCR module with the PDF Translator, it is possible to author these bookmarks automatically.

04/18/2010

In DotImage 9.0, Atalasoft is providing a set of .NET tools that can take collections of PDF documents, in part or in whole, and assemble them into new documents.

04/16/2010

Printing Documents in SilverlightDotImage 9.0 introduces support for printing in Silverlight when used with Silverlight 4. This article will cover the steps for building a simple Silverlight 4.0 application with Visual Studio 2010 that will print all of the images loaded in our SilverlightImageViewer.

04/16/2010

03/31/2010

Got a stack of paper, a scanner, and an account on Scribd? Then this project is for you. With DotImage, Visual Studio, and a little bit of code, you can quickly and easily write a Scan-to-Scribd desktop application to put those documents online. Free sample code and step-by-step instructions!

10/07/2009

Multipage business documents and reports sometimes use barcodes to aid in routing and indexing. Using the DotImage .NET PDF Reader, .NET TIFF Codec, and Barcode Recognition for .NET Add-on, it's easy to read the barcodes and use them to automate workflows or find these documents in a repository.

07/24/2009

05/12/2009

This article will take you through the steps of recognizing the marks on standard forms using the image processing functionality in DotImage.

03/09/2009

Because of the flexibility of TIFF, it can be a challenge to write programs that honor all the possible conditions that are present in a TIFF file. The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer attempts to do this, but it only understands white is zero as a photometric interpretation. I hear about this issue most often from customers who are generating TIFF images and are puzzled when they open one in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and it comes out inverted. For that, I've created a small chunk of code that can normalize 1-bit images to white is zero

09/17/2008

How can a color scheme be extracted from an image? The problem with determining a color scheme is that there are too many colors in the image, yet the algorithm to convert the image must find a set of colors that most accurately represents the original. Atalasoft provides the code right here.

07/24/2008

PDFs are probably the most popular digital document exchange format on the planet. ThinDoc simplifies things by providing a Zero-Footprint PDF Viewer allowing you to view PDFs without downloading them.

05/06/2008

For most any Serializeable object, making a DebuggerVisualizer is simple and examples abound. However, if you are trying to build a DebuggerVisualizer for an object which is not Serializable or takes too long to Serialize and Deserialize, things are not quite so simple.

03/24/2008

Create an Application to Split, Merge, and Reorder TIFFs in a Few Minutes – Source Code and EXE Provided

11/12/2007

Atalasoft leverages their DotImage toolkit to manipulate color channels for the purpose of image enhancement, in this case satellite images. The article is a tutorial on image enhancement and it includes all source code and test images.

06/12/2007

Atalasoft decided to create web versions of their WinForms imaging controls. This case study outlines the requirements and analysis used to determine which technology was used in order to get migrate functionality to the browser: AJAX vs. Java vs. ActiveX vs. Flash.

12/01/2006

Demonstrates the use of Atalasoft's DotImage GlyphReader OCR to enable .NET applications to digitize paper documents as searchable PDFs that can be indexed by search engines.

11/01/2006

This article will show you how to use the Atalasoft DotImage AJAX-enabled Web Image Viewer and Web Thumbnail control to navigate multi-page TIFFs, add controls to call clean-up routines, and update the browser without a post-back.

05/02/2006

Atalasoft DotImage includes many tools for manipulating or analyzing images. Included in it is a class ImageSource which allows to work effectively with an arbitrary number of images without worrying about the details of where they come from and how they’re managed.

10/03/2005

Convert images to plain text with the Atalasoft suite of OCR objects.