DeepZoom Image Collection

Fast generation of DeepZoom image Tile sets, collection thumbnails, and XML data in managed code without using external tools. This code project was inspired by an interview with Jose Fajardo. In the video, Jose demonstrates his idea that "all documents on the web can be made DeepZoom-able". In my Company, we have a regular R&D "free play day", and on my scheduled day, I decided to try out Jose`s concept for our document management software. Our software stores scans as TIFF or JPEG images, and I decided to try and make those "DeepZoom-able". Jose uses a command line tool that is shipped with Microsoft`s DeepZoom Composer to convert his documents, but in my experience, relying on a command line tool is not a very stable solution for a server environment, especially if you would want to convert the massive batches of scans that our DMS typically contains. A second reason to use a different approach is that the collection feature of the current DeepZoom Composer beta (June 2008 version) is a bit Buggy. If you mix images having different DPI values in one DeepZoom collection, the Composer will render image positions inconsistently. Typically, our customers will mix 200 dpi and 300 dpi, Portrait and landscape pages in one scan Batch, and I could not get such a DeepZzoom collection rendered correctly by the DeepZoom Composer.