What controls/tools are you using in your medical software for capturing and manipulating images? Also you probably mentioned it in class and I didn't pick up on it, but do you store your document images as a file or within a SQL data base?

-Larry

You didn't ask me but I'm gonna pipe in anyhow



I used Atalasoft after getting recommendations from Trent, it worked out very well.



I used their scanning, image manipulation, and PDF components.



I had used Pegasus in the past (VFP) and evaluated them as well, their .NET implementation was total crap IMHO.



Good luck.

Keith Chisarik

As Keith mentioned we use Atalasoft...their most recent version resolves a lot of issues that they had in the past regarding memory leaks and performance issues.  For the most part they have been pretty good to work with and I would recommend them again.  At the moment I am awaiting a resolution regarding their licensing.  I am the only developer that uses the tool within our team and we have a class library that houses all of the logic...but they have changed how their license checking works and any assembly that even references the class library must be compiled on a machine that has a license....which obviously is causing me a lot of heartburn.  So that would be my only caution to you at the moment.  Otherwise their product is working well now and it is runtime royalty free which none of their competitors are....so that alone is a big selling point!

Thanks for the info... I'll check out Altasoft.

-Larry

Someone missed this part of his question!

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Hi Ben.

If I remember, they use both approaches, depending on the client conditions and preferences. There is even an option that will let convert all the contents into files or table fields at run time.

Abraços.

Hi Ivan;



I remember Trent showing that part (showing a pic of his girl), but I didn't catch whether they save each pic as binary into database or outside as individual pic!



Don't forget about my gift, I haven't slept since you told me!

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Trent, can you explain this to me? I looked at their web site and they are talking "Server License". What server are they talking about?

If I develop an app using your ES to get data/images from/to my client app. does your ES consider as their "License server"?



I'd be interested to include basic adding/viewing images to my client app. Will I need their SDK or does .Net have enough tools to do that?

Thanks!

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For your first question, we allow the users to store the images as files on the disk or as binary data within the database.  Some of our clients use only SQL Express, and with the 4GB DB limit, we still need to allow them to store the files on disk.  However, with the full version of SQL, they can store them in binary fields in the DB.

For your second question... If you're just showing JPEGs or BMPs, then you don't need Atalasoft... TIFFs even for that matter.  You will need Atalasoft if you need to add scanning support to your application, to allow your users to scan directly from your application.  Once you have the data as an image file, you don't have to have Atalasoft to display the images... a .NET PictureBox set to the right dimensions will work just fine. 

We also use Atalasoft for PDF rendering, so, when users scan documnets into the app, they are stored as PDFs and rendered through an Atalasoft control.

Thanks Ben!

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