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C#	Using DotImage to Scan Documents into the Cloud 13 Nov 2008 Updated: 13 Nov 2008 Rating: 2.09/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 1.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,825 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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!
	Optical Mark Recognition with DotImage 12 May 2009 Updated: 12 May 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,335 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will take you through the steps of recognizing the marks on standard forms using the image processing functionality in DotImage.
Visual Basic	TIFF and PDF: What’s the Difference and How to Convert Between Them 24 Jul 2009 Updated: 24 Jul 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,562 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. TIFF and PDF are the two most popular formats for document imaging. The primary reasons are that they both can store multiple pages in one file and both allow each page to have different sizes and compression. However, knowing the differences will help you choose between the two formats.
	Recognizing Barcodes in PDF and TIFF Documents 6 Oct 2009 Updated: 6 Oct 2009 Rating: 2.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 53,082 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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.
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ASP.NET	Cleaning Document Images on the Web with AJAX 1 Nov 2006 Updated: 1 Nov 2006 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Not specified Views: 57,383 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 438 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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.
	"Hey! Is That My Car? How to Sharpen a QuickBird Satellite Image Using DotImage" 13 Nov 2007 Updated: 12 Nov 2007 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,372 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 64 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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.
	Generating a Website Color Scheme from an Image 17 Sep 2008 Updated: 17 Sep 2008 Rating: 3.88/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,944 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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.
HTML	Case Study: Bringing WinForms Controls to the Web with AJAX 12 Jun 2007 Updated: 12 Jun 2007 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,065 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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.

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Lou Franco

Atalasoft, Inc.

United States

Lou Franco is the Director of Engineering at Atalasoft, provider of the leading .NET Imaging SDK (DotImage) and the Document Viewer for SharePoint (Vizit).

http://atalasoft.com/products/dotimage
http://vizitsp.com