help with using kodak imaging controls

[tweek]

Can anyone shed some light as to how I can use Kodak imaging controls so I can handle TIF images?

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Well tweek, as we all can see you have been a member here for a while now and this is you first question in all that time ... Let me first say please read/review FAQ222-2244 in hopes that in the future you may provide a little more information ...

Like what do you mean by how???

How to load and display them? ImageEdit
How to use a scanner to capture a page and turn it into a tiff? ImageAdmin, ImageScan, ImageEdit
How to modify a tiff, including adding notes, highlights, watermarks ect.? ImageEdit, ImageAnnotationToolBox
Or How to display thumbnails of a multipage tiff? ImageThumb

Good Luck

 

[Sika2]

I have been wrestling with the same problem for some time and had some success with the following code:

Private Sub CmdPlan_Click()
Dim WhichFile As String
CmnDog1.ShowOpen
WhichFile = CmnDog1.FileName
ImgEdit1.Image = WhichFile
ImgEdit1.Display
End Sub

Unfortunately it would not work all the time for some reason and I have now had enough and am looking at copying the file from a .Tif to a .Jpeg before opening it. I hope this gives you some ideas

 

[tweek]

Thanks, guys for your help. Sika2, my code is similar to yours but I can't get it to work. I'll play with it some more and if I still can't get it to work, I'll look to LEADTOOLS to handle the images.

Thanks again.

 

[chiph]

tweek-
That's probably the best plan -- if I recall correctly, the Kodak controls aren't available in all versions of Windows (I think they weren't in 98ME, but I'm not sure).

Chip H.


If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first

 

[CCLINT]

The Kodak/wang tools were available from W95 to W2000.
For XP there are different tools to do this with.

 

[tinymind]

Tweek... Did you get the Kodak Image controls to work?

Tiny

Perfection is Everything
If it worked first time we wont be here!

 

[JeffTullin]

Just a thought:

TIF files can have a variety of compression methods.
One of which is LZW, which is a copyrighted format.
For a number of years, image handling components have had to licence the LZW technology, or not allow the use such TIF files, or GIF files.

(This is one of the reasons why PNG format came about.)
Perhaps the Kodak controls don't 'do' LZW compressed images?

Does this fail for ALL TIF files, or just some?
If it works on BMP and fails on GIF, that will be the cause.

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Actually JeffTullin the wang/kodak controls can open LZW but cannot save in that format and the same goes for jpeg files (although they can use jpeg compression).

Good Luck

 

[tweek]

Tiny, for this app, I was only using the Kodak Image controls to view and print TIF images. So yes it did work. My company is looking into LEADTOOLS products to handle a variety of images. I am thinking this is the way to go.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions.

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Whoa there tweek, before you go and spend an excess of several thousand dollars you may want to look at pegsusimaging or even better scansoft.

Lead tools are good, a bit difficult to use, but good none the less, but if you are going to be getting into OCR definitly review scansofts OCR/OMR engines, (Lead Tools uses theirs and puts a thin wrapper on it and then charges you extra) I think you will find that they are some of the best engines out there.

Good Luck

 

[tweek]

Good to know... I will definitely look into this. Anything that'll make my job a whole lot easier. Thanks for the '411', vb5prgrmr.

 

[tinymind]

tweek

I also got the images controls to work. View, Zoom, Move several Pages in Tiff docs and all controlled via buttons on an Access97 form ... it does the job ..

tweek/vb5prgrmr
Just a little note ... If you thinking of using OCR text recognition systems I would recommend Kofax Ascent & Prosar Paradatec ... they are really worth a look.

Tiny


Perfection is Everything
If it worked first time we wont be here!