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April 2008 - Posts

Writing Code 39 Barcodes with Javascript

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 12:01 PM by loufranco
I previously showed how easy it is to generate Code 39 Barcodes using DotImage , now I want to show you how to do it in pure JavaScript. I wanted to make it easy to deploy so I don't use images. Luckily, 1D barcodes are easy to make with just colored Read More...
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Attachment(s): Barcode.zip

Technogically savvy photographers

Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:16 AM by loufranco
I just noticed this blog entry from picturetom pointing to an interesting study on trends in digital photography available for purchase from InfoTrends. One of our customers, David Cardinal from ProShooters , fits this bill: ‘Today´s photographers are Read More...
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Improving OCR Accuracy

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 2:50 PM by loufranco
OCR Engines are very good at reading text from clean machine print documents. If you have older scans or if the documents are not meant to be easily read by a machine, there are still some things you can do to improve your accuracy. This report from the Read More...
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Book Review: ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 8:10 AM by loufranco
(Full Disclosure: I was a tech reviewer for this book and received a free copy) I read the ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook last November coincidentally while I was writing automatic image fetching from SQL Server and OleDB databases into DotImage 6.0 (DbImageSoruce). Read More...
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RTC Events

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 1:19 PM by loufranco
If you are in the Springfield, Massachusetts area, you might want to check out the RTC . Today, I attended an event that they put together, called Breaking Through: IT-Enabled Business Opportunities . The next one builds on some of the ideas in it, and Read More...
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31 Apps in 31 Days

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:56 AM by loufranco
Next month, Atalasoft is going to deliver 31 Apps in 31 Days (one for each day in May). We are inviting anyone outside of Atalasoft that wants to participate to submit applications. We're looking for small, useful desktop applications that use DotImage Read More...
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What Code Camp gets right

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:10 AM by loufranco
So, Rick , Jacob , Adam and Elaine have all given their impressions. I guess I should chime in. The thing that struck me about Code Camp is that with a couple of people organizing, some sponsors and volunteer speakers, you can put on a technical conference Read More...
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My notes for Extending Powershell to do Image Processing, Part II

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 7:20 AM by loufranco
Ok, here's how you create a CmdLet that uses DotImage: 1 Download the attached zip open the solution 2. Build it -- my dll is named AtalasoftSnapin.dll Here is the code for GetImage.cs, the implementation of the get-image cmdlet using System; using System.ComponentModel; Read More...
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Attachment(s): AtalasoftSnapin.zip

My notes for Extending Powershell to do Image Processing, Part I

Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:10 PM by loufranco
Ok, you're going to want to install Powershell before reading the rest of this . Once, you've done that, try typing these commands at the prompt (type in what appears after the >, the text in italics is just commentary): Here's the hello world program Read More...
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Extending Powershell at Code Camp

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:01 PM by loufranco
This is a placeholder blog entry where I'll post my slides and code for my Extending Powershell talk at Code Camp on Saturday . The code I am showing uses DotImage, and we want everyone to be able to play with it, so we'll have free DotImage Photo licenses Read More...
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Loading Office Documents in .NET

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:05 AM by loufranco
If you want to process Office documents in .NET, for instance, if you use the DotImage AJAX Image Viewer and want to view a Word document, the easiest way is to use Office 2007 to do the heavy lifting. Here are instructions for doing that, but please Read More...
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Attachment(s): WordWebViewer.zip