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Atalasoft DotImage V10.0 released

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:44:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

Adds a new web document viewer, managed subset, improved web scanning, barcode symbologies, and an IRIS OCR engine.

Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging is an advanced document imaging imaging toolkit that can add advanced image viewing, editing, printing, scanning, and annotating support to an application. DotImage Document Imaging includes an imaging class library, a Windows Forms control library, an ASP.NET Server-Side Image Viewer, DotTwain for advanced TWAIN scanning, and DotAnnotate for advanced annotations. Full documentation is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the new release introduces several advancements in support of building imaging applications for the cloud.

The following DotImage products are available:

Updates in 10.0

New WebDocumentViewer for ASP.NET websites. Built on jQuery and modern browser technologies.
Developers can create a full-page document viewer with smooth, flick-style momentum scrolling. Just a few lines of code are needed and the viewer can be easily embedded into any ASP .NET or ASP .NET MVC website and can be themed.

Can be easily deployed to websites using ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC
Can be themed with jQuery UI ThemeRoller
Shows multiple pages in a scroll viewer
Uses web handlers for server interaction

New DotImage OCR Engine: IRIS IDRS
DotImage 10.0 OCR now supports the IRIS IDRS engine. It currently supports 137 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, etc. languages and add-ons offer recognition of Asian, Hebrew, and Farsi languages. It also offers zonal and page analysis support. Another feature, the I.R.I.S. Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) engine for all Latin based languages, supports spaced and even touching handprint.

Supports Asian character sets
Supports ICR

New Silverlight Imaging SDK that is a subset of DotImage and usable in the client-side of Silverlight applications without elevation.
A large subset of DotImage has been ported to run inside the Silverlight client and other managed environments such as Windows Phone 7, Office 365, and Partial-Trust environments, plug-in and other managed environments such as WinPhone 7, BPOS, and Partial-Trust environments.

Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
Many image processing commands including 1-bit

Silverlight viewer performance enhancements

Can use local isolated storage for client-side caching.
Can get pages on demand when in single-page view mode
Silverlight viewers can use TIFF directly without converting to PNG or JPEG.

New fully-managed AnyCpu subset of DotImage that can be used in partial-trust environments.

Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
Many image processing commands including 1-bit

New Barcode Reader Symbologies
In addition to Code 39, UPC, PDF417, QR Code, DataMatrix, and the rest of DotImage's 1D and 2D barcode symbologies, DotImage now supports

AustraliaPost
OneCode/Intelligent Mail
Planet
RM4SCC

EZTwainX is included in DotImage Document Imaging and DotTwain
Browser-based scanning has been significantly improved with the addition of ActiveX TWAIN capabilities from the Dosadi acquisition, and included in DotTwain and DotImage Document Imaging.

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.

Atalasoft DotImage updated to 9.0d

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

The following DotImage products are available:

Updates in 9.0d

Added ReferencedImageAnnotationRootPath property to the WebAnnotationViewer to allow caching of ReferencedImageAnnotation images in the browser
Added additional Type6 metadata parsing for unknown WANG Type6 data. It is now stored in the ExtraProperties of an annotation
.NET 4.0 WPF defaults to low quality instead of high quality for image resizes. DotImage set to high quality by default for its WPF viewers now
Added support for reading Wang Link Annotations, whose information is put in Extra Properties
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to render improperly if annotations were loaded in a RemoteInvoke when there were no layers
Fixed bug in TileSize for the WebImageViewer
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause TextAnnotations to render their text farther down the next line even when there was space left
Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer that stopped Chrome from working while using ASP.NET MVC
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would duplicate annotations on PostBack
Added Silverlight method for opening multiple files at once
A bug was fixed in the GifDecoder so that it will partially read some broken GIF files instead of throwing an exception
PDF Rasterizer bug fixed to rasterize PDF with 4bpp images in them
Fixed PDF/A compliance issue. endobj needs a newline before it
Fixed a rare bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause text fields containing annotation data to be added to the page
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that did not render annotation edges smoothly
Fixed a bug in PDF Annotation exporting when exporting no annotations over a page with annotations, it didn't remove the annotations that were there as expected
LevelsCommand support 16bpp Gray images now
Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer when contained in an UpdatePanel in a TabControl
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to disappear while RemoteInvoking
TiffDecoder can now deal with more corrupt TIFF files that have their directory offsets set to impossibly large numbers
Fixed client side support of Annotation.CanSelect
Improved multiline text rendering on Canvas object
Fixed a bug saving PDF after removing pages
Wang saved EmbeddedImageAnnotation functionality improved
Fixed a bug in ResampleDocumentCommand with images set to minisblack (using 0 for black, 1 for white)
Fixed a problem with rendering WebControls inside ASP.NET MVC ViewUserControls
Fixed a bug in WebAnnotationViwer -- the annotation was still loading after its AnnotationLoaded event is raised
Fixed a bug in the PDFEncoder for 1bpp images in the same document as 24bpp images
PDFAnnotationExporter and Loading Annotations did not take Rotation into consideration
Handle null destinations in PDF
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would fire AnnotationChanged at the wrong time in some cases.
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would not allow the ToolTip to be set from the client side when creating the annotation programmatically
fixed bug in SilverlightImageViewer when 1bpp images are rotated and antialiased. It didn't show it rotated
Fixed a bug in PDF generation with black outlines not showing up in Acrobat
Added a GetObjectType() to WebControls, so that customers can inherit from them, but original type is still known
Fixed a bug in the TWAIN ActiveX control to check availability of changing sizes before allowing it

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DotImage adds new OCR Engine

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:08:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

Atalasoft DotImage 9.0c also gains wider RAW camera file support and includes various fixes.

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, 2008 and 2010.

DotImage is available in three editions:

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

Updates in 9.0c

Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would allow annotations to move while the image was centered and the control was being resized
Added a new OCR Engine, RecoStar, to DotImage OCR
Added a way to set PixelType in the ActiveX TWAIN control
Added a way to set FrameSize in the ActiveX TWAIN control
Fixed a licensing bug with the ActiveX TWAIN control
Fixed a memory leak in the hole punch removal command
Added FILEVERSION information to one of the Forms Processing assemblies
Fixed a case where IE warns of mixed content when using our web control on HTTPS pages
When 8bpp indexed files are sent to glyphreader, they will be auto-converted to 8bpp gray. If you want different behavior, you can handle the ImageSendOff event. The new image won't appear in translated documents -- it's used for OCR purposes only
Fixed issue in DocumentAnnotationViewer where annotations could be lost by deselecting the ThumbnailView
A memory leak was fixed in LineRemovalCommand
A bug was fixed in the The Toolkit Activation program so that DotImage Photo Free could be activated offline
Clarified instructions on the Toolkit Activation wizard
A memory leak was fixed in AutoBorderCropCommand
RAW was updated to add more cameras
Fixed a leak in the invert text command
Fixed a bug in Silverlight not cleaning all cached files
A bug was fixed in WinForms Annotations - when an annotation was deselected, it sent a click event with the wrong annotation in it
Corrected EndEdgePoints of detected barcodes
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would allow annotations to move while the image was centered and the control was being resized

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Atalasoft widens camera RAW support

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:23:00 GMT

Adding AJAX annotations to a scanned document.

DotImage 9.0b release adds save and print methods to SilverlightImageViewer and extends RAW camera support.

Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging is an advanced document imaging imaging toolkit that can add advanced image viewing, editing, printing, scanning, and annotating support to an application. DotImage Document Imaging includes an imaging class library, a Windows Forms control library, an ASP.NET Server-Side Image Viewer, DotTwain for advanced TWAIN scanning, and DotAnnotate for advanced annotations. Full documentation is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. DotImage includes Silverlight controls and enhanced AJAX support such as drag-and-drop Web thumbnails.

The following editions are available:

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

Updates in 9.0b

DotImage Photo is now free
Added a MouseUp and MouseDown event to WPF Controls
Added support to run the Silverlight viewer out-of-browser.
Made OMR detect lines and crosses better.
Added a Save method to the SilverlightImageViewer.
Added a Print method to the SilverlightImageViewer to simplify printing.
Updated the RAW codec to support more cameras
Detect licensing errors better in Silverlight and give better error messages.
Fixed a bug that didn't allow the creation of named DefaultAnnotations from JavaScript code.
Fixed a bug with serializing SilverlightInkAnnotation.
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause all properties of a LayerAnnotation to revert back to defaults.
Fixed a bug where WebViewerControl.RegisterScriptInclude throws FileNotFound when an optional assembly wasn't found.
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would show all layers on the last page, when annotations were added inside a RemoteInvoke.
Fixed a bug with saving a Silverlight PdfMarkupAnnotation highlighter.
Fixed an issue with DotTwain locking up some TWAIN 2.x drivers that issue callbacks from a separate thread.
Support the Web Viewing Suite license in Silverlight.
Fixed a bug that would cause an error in IE when zooming in on multiple text annotations.
Fixed the XMPFormatter to deserialize arrays in annotations.
Added support for printing Silverlight annotations.
Fixed a bug with deserializing a Silverlight PdfMarkupAnnotation highlighter.
Twain ActiveX Control updated to resolve installation issues on some machines. However, users currently experiencing the "repeating install" bug need to manually uninstall.
Fixed a bug with the Silverlight image processing requests creating an invalid query if a query is already used to access the hosting web page.
Fixed a bug that didn't allow AnnotationChanging to fire while an annotation was changing in the WebThumbnailViewer.
Fixed a bug with SilverlightInkAnnotation not serializing correctly if it had not been visible.
Added AnnotationRequested event for the WebAnnotationViewer.
Fixed a bug with the Silverlight CompositePrintPageLayout calculations.
Fixed an issue with the AtalasoftSilverlightExceptionEventArgs.ToString method returning duplicate information.
Reduced the number of server requests when opening an image in the SilverlightImageViewer.
Added support for multi-clicking of the Silverlight selection mouse tool.
Fixed a bug with the ThumbnailView preventing small change Scroll events.
Fixed a bug that was preventing custom annotations from using protected serialization constructors.

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. The company 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.

Atalasoft updates DotImage to 9.0a

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:03:00 GMT

The DotImage Viewer control is used to display images directly from a database with mouse tools that give instant access to zooming, panning, and magnification.

New release includes support for ASP.NET MVC.

DotImage is available in three editions:

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

Updates in 9.0a

Added support for ASP.NET MVC
Added a CreatePdfAnnotationDataExporter event to the DocumentAnnotationViewer so that you can create custom export policies for annotations when they are stored in a PDF.
Added a LoadAnnotationData method to DocumentAnnotationViewer to allow loading annotations separate from the images.
Fixed a bug with TwainManager.TwainLibraryLocation returning the wrong location when TWAIN 2.x is on the system.
Fixed a bug that caused an exception when licensing the FormsProcessing assembly.
Added the Code39Options property to ReadOpts to enable/disable code 39 semantic analysis.
Fixed a bug in the WebThumbnailViewer that inhibited it from loading images from an ImageSource.
Fixed bug in PDF resource handling when fonts have no encoding specified.
A bug was fixed in Barcode Writer licenses to make them work without DotImage licenses.
The TGA Decoder's validator was changed to make it faster and less likely to mistake TIFF as TGA.
Fixed a bug in DocumentAnnotationViewer which was not providing a default layer when loading images with no annotations.
AtalaImage.ToBitmap() was fixed to work with 48bpp images.
Fixed a positioning bug with clicking on an annotation to create a new annotation when Zoom is not 1.
Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when calling ExitCreateMode before the CurrentLayer has been set.
Fixed a bug in DocumentAnnotationViewer which was throwing an exception when loading an image format other than JPEG, TIFF or PDF.
InkData was made serializable
The renderer for Ink annotations was fixed to use a transformation matrix if one is provided.
Fixed a bug with TwainManager.TwainLibraryLocation returning the wrong location when TWAIN 2.x is on the system.
PDF parsers were updated to handle files with blank owner passwords
Added Code39Options to the ReadOpts class. This allows setting DisableFullASCII to turn off escape code processing.

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DotImage now supports VS2010 integration

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:16:00 GMT

Adding AJAX annotations to a scanned document.

Atalasoft DotImage version 9.0 also supports Silverlight 4 and adds PDF encryption and decryption plus bookmarking.

Atalasoft DotImage is an easy to use imaging toolkit for .NET developers who need to quickly add advanced imaging capabilities to applications. brings image scanning, viewing, annotation, compression and processing functionality right into Visual Studio's toolbox. DotImage Document Imaging includes an imaging class library, a Windows Forms control library, an ASP.NET Server-Side Image Viewer, DotTwain for advanced TWAIN scanning, and DotAnnotate for advanced annotations. Build superior imaging user interfaces with visual controls for Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, AJAX, and Silverlight.

The following editions are available:

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

Updates in 9.0

Visual Studio 2010 integration
Silverlight 4.0 and printing
Forms Processing add-on
PDF Bookmarking
PDF Encryption/Decryption
PDF Page Manipulation (insert, remove and rearrange pages)
WinForms Annotation Document Viewer
Web Thumbnail control supports AJAX zoom and mouse tools

For more information visit:
http://www.atalasoft.com/company/press-releases/dotimage-9-0-announced

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. The company 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.

Atalasoft releases DotImage 8.0c

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a scanned document.

New version installs Silverlight components into Microsoft Expression Studio.

DotImage is available in three editions:

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

New Features in 8.0c

WebImageViewer and WebAnnotationViewer have events that let you cache and stream out your own tiles
Atalasoft now install Silverlight components into Microsoft Expression Studio
Added a LinkViewer method to the Silverlight control which allows two controls, one in thumbnail and one in single page layout, will share server-side files and update each other
Added additional value testing when Silverlight annotation properties are set to prevent possible exceptions

Bug Fixes in 8.0c

Added a check to AnnotateViewer.Save to make sure any Text or Callout annotations have exited EditMode before saving
A bug was fixed in the VB source to the barcode demo that caused it not to find any barcodes
Fixed a bug where setting the SilverlightImageViewer to a small size would throw an exception when an image is loaded
Fixed a bug in the Twain Control demo that would cause a "No devices found" message
Worked around an Internet Explorer bug that incorrectly reported insecure connections for relative paths used in background images
Fixed a bug with Canvas.DrawText alignment
AsynchronousException was not always being raised for errors
Fixed a bug in the VB Twain Control demo
Fixed an exception thrown with AnnotationController.Paste
Fixed an issue with FolderThumbnailView where duplicate thumbnails were being created when the total count was greater than 2000
Fixed a bug that didn't render the script tags from a callback in the header tag.
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that caused problems with IE, when the outline of a TextAnnotation was set to none.
Fixed a bug with quotation marks in Web Text annotations
Fixed the Twain Control's configuration file to point to the correct URL
Updated ISIS documentation for IsisSettings.Brightness to reflect the ISIS specification description
Fixed an issue where SelectionChanged was not being raised after a call to AnnotationController.Paste
Fixed a bug in RubberStampAnnotation where some characters would cause artifacts to be left being when resizing
Fixed a bug with a masked selection in AtalaImageViewer when the Bounds of the selection is set
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that did not allow double quote marks in a TextAnnotation
Fixed an issue where .NET would cause an exception for Grayscale scans
Fixed an issue where TextFormat.Alignment was being modified by Canvas.CalculateTextSize
ClearSelectedAnnotations was not setting ActiveAnnotation to null (Nothing in VB)
Fixed a center of rotation bug when deserializing rotated annotations
Fixed a bug in AnnotationsController.Paste() that caused it not to work

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.

Atalasoft releases DotImage 8.0b

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a scanned document.

DotTwain ActiveX Control now supports PixelFormat selection.

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

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Atalasoft releases DotTwain 8.0b

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Setting properties of an image acquired from a TWAIN device.

DotTwain ActiveX gets public key licensing support.

Atalasoft DotTwain is a 100% managed .NET Windows Forms component that allows fast capturing of digital images from scanners, cameras and other devices supporting TWAIN. It utilizes the improvements of the TWAIN 1.9 specifications for ultra fast scanning. It works with .NET Bitmap objects and has no dependencies other than the .NET Framework. It is intended for small footprint, no-touch deployment over the Web, or to add scanning abilities without Atalasoft DotImage.

New Features in 8.0b

Added support for PixelFormat selection support to the DotTwain ActiveX Control
ActiveX DotTwain now supports public key licensing
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