Abstract: Inserting images into documents. An image source device is made active with an application used to create text in a document. An application programming interface (API) module is accessed from within the application. The API interfaces the application with a TWAIN module used for acquiring an image with the image source device. The API module is separate from the TWAIN module and isolates users from directly interacting with the TWAIN module. The application uses the API module for negotiating with the image source device to determine a set of image capture parameters that control the image source device when acquiring the image. Data representing the image is communicated from the image source device into the memory of a computer hosting the application used to create text so that the data representing the image is a portion of a document stored in the memory.

Abstract: A system and associated method for acquiring images from various imaging devices and inserting these acquired images into application program documents. The system includes an interface module, a source manager module, and a source module, the latter two supporting the TWAIN communication specification. The interface module allows word processing applications, spreadsheet applications, presentation design applications, and other types of applications to be provided the capability for easily inserting images into documents that are created by such applications. An application program interface (API) is provided with an program application that enables the application program to acquire images from any TWAIN compliant image acquisition device. The method defines a process for automatically capturing and inserting an image with minimal user input, and enables a user to customize image capture parameters when acquiring an image, if desired.

Abstract: A network analyzer is provided that searches all of the sites of a network, such as the Internet, contained in a site list and analyzes the analysis criteria. The site list may be specified by a user, randomly generated, or retrieved from a file. The analysis criteria may be default analysis criteria, retrieved from a file, or created by the user. After the site list and analysis criteria have been specified, a file, such as the HTML file, at each of the specified sites is downloaded and stored as a text file. The site is analyzed for number of occurrences and/or sizes of analysis criteria data. After all of the sites on the site list have been analyzed, the results are displayed. Results of an analysis may be compared to results of a previous analysis in order to track trends.