DotImage 6.0 New Features

DotImage 6.0 has added support for the additional new features listed below.

New Add-Ons

• DotImage ISIS Add-On
  • Supports ISIS Scanning
• DotImage CAD/CAM Reader
  • View AutoCad DWG and DXF Drawings
• DotImage OCR Tesseract Engine
  • Royalty-Free OCR

New Features

• Support for x64 architectures (OCR, ISIS, CAD/CAM, and TWAIN currently lack 64-bit support)
• Added support for Visual Studio 2008
• Greatly improved ease of use for viewing multi-page documents and annotations on the web with the AJAX-Enabled controls.
• CAD/CAM Support for AutoCad's DWG and DXF Formats
• TWAIN Scanning now occurs in a background thread, so that UI's no longer have to be frozen during a scan.
• Web thumbnails now can automatically show annotations on their associated viewer by setting a property.
• AJAX-Enabled WebControls in multi-framed documents automatically handle annotations without any additional client or server-side code required. 
• Support for viewing and authoring native PDF Annotations in Windows Forms Annotation Controls.
• DotImage PDF Rasterizer renamed to DotImage PDF Reader
• Search and extract text within a PDF document using PDF Reader. Supports obtaining the position of text phrases on a PDF page so that the text can be highlighted.
• Added a combined thumbnail and image viewer for efficient document viewing/browsing/saving in Windows Forms Applications called DocumentViewer.
• Added support to view arbritrary images in the AJAX-Enabled controls by supporing the ImageSource objects.
• Added support for retrieving images from an arbitrary database using an ImageSource object and integrating with the WebImageViewer and WebThumbnailViewer. This object is called DbImageSource.
• Added a new class called TiffDocument that easily manipulates and composes TIFF files without re-encoding.
• Added a new WPF Image Viewer control for viewing images in WPF.
• Added Black Point Compensation Support when converting to a new colorspace.
• Added support for Reading and Writing JpegXR, also known as Windows Media Photo and HD Photo. Included in the Atalasoft WPF assembly
• Added support for reading XPS documents. Included in the Atalasoft WPF assembly
• Added an advanced DitherCommand to reduce multi-bit images to two colors supporting Floyd-Steinberg, serpentine, ordered dithering, and pattered dithering.
• Added Color Deskew to AutoDeskewCommand for those with ADC Licensing. Improves page processing speed on OCR engines that use deskewing on gray or color images.
• Improved the performance of TIFF image decoding.
• Made adjustments to the TIFF codec to improve visual appearances of images using YCbCr encoding
• Improved the performance of the PdfEncoder for Flate image compression.
• Improved the efficiency of the PDF Reader regional reading.
  • WebImageViewer tiles (which are regions) can be created much more quickly using less memor
  • Drawing a Page object to a Graphics object, the mechanism via which you print now supports having a tile size allowing for the printing of significantly larger PDFs and much higher DPIs without running out of memory as only one tile is in memory at a time.
• More image processing commands operate using multiple threads, commands can be configured to multi-thread automatically.
• Improved support and reliability for viewing RAW digital photo images.
• RAW decoder supports many more cameras and has many small bug fixes and improvements.
• Additional multi-threaded Image Processing Commands with automatic creation when possible
• Multi-threaded commands are faster on multi-core machines