ActiveX data-binding - handle images as easily as conventional data types - Optimize image quality, compression, application performance, bandwidth and storage - TWAIN Scanner and Digital-Camera integration - Manage web or intranet image content - Create 'purposed' images (e.g. thumbnail, detail, print, archive) - Store images in database tables, external files, or a mixture of both, to build scalable, manageable solutions - Automate image processing and content management - Work with all common databases and field types, eg Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and other databases with OLE Object, Blob, or equivalent long binary data types - Use with Microsoft® Access, Visual Basic®, Internet Explorer, Visual C++®, VBScript, VBA, DAO, ADO, RDS and more - Compressed bitmap image storage using industry-standard jpeg encoding or lossless png - Ideal for standalone, client/server and browser-based applications. Examples include: online product catalogues, stock and inventory databases, content management, personnel systems, membership management, image publishing and libraries, photo archives, law enforcement, document management, auction, property, real estate and auto sites.