Atalasoft releases DotImage 8.0b

DotTwain ActiveX Control now supports PixelFormat selection.

Adding annotations to a scanned document.

Atalasoft DotImage is a full featured .NET imaging toolkit that adds advanced imaging functionality to your applications. DotImage includes a collection of image viewer controls for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, and Silverlight, backed by an advanced and high performance image processing library for scanning, editing, conversion, annotating, barcode reading and writing, PDF, and OCR. Build web-based RIA applications with document imaging capabilities quickly and economically with Atalasoft's flexible licensing model. DotImage is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and is supported in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

DotImage is available in three editions:

The following add-ons and codecs are available to extend DotImage functionality:

New Features in 8.0b

Added an option to skip validation of barcodes (SkipAllValidation property on ReadOpts). Makes the reader find barcodes that might be damaged - the data returned should be validated by calling code
Added support for PixelFormat selection support to the DotTwain ActiveX Control
ActiveX DotTwain now supports public key licensing
Silverlight error message was changed to reference a KB article
Added links inside of the Toolkit Activation to help in choosing an evaluation
Added a feature to ActiveX Twain to allow saving to a file locally instead of immediately uploading
Updated Tesseract OCR to v2.04

About Atalasoft

Established in 2000, Atalasoft is a provider of a high-performance, standards-compliant .NET Framework imaging libraries targeted towards authors of document processing and management systems and photographic imaging. Atalasoft offers unparalleled ease of integration through CLR compliant objects, logically laid-out object hierarchies, rock-solid implementation, and first-rate support. Atalasoft's components have been used to quickly add imaging functionality to applications thus saving money and reducing development time. Atalasoft’s customers include fortune 500 companies, medical imaging corporations, aerospace engineering, software development firms, and web developers from all over the world.