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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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.