Imaging Experts

Why Build Your Own Web Viewer?

Snowbound originally only offered imaging toolkits from which our customers created all kinds of applications including viewers, server-based applications for document conversion, and comprehensive document management systems. Today, our image manipulation and viewing technology continues to be embedded in customers products; allowing them to seamlessly enhance their applications with advanced imaging functions, while still being able to deploy their own custom solutions.

With the numerous advances in the power and profitablity of web-based technology and distributed applications, many of our customers migrated to Java or established a need for web-based viewing and document processing. We moved with them, and developed a powerful Java imaging SDK, and later one for .NET as well. In the process of creating demo programs and samples for these toolkits, we found ourselves exceedingly expert in not only developing imaging functions and tools, but also in creating powerful viewers and client-server web imaging applications. As our customers discovered these powerful applications, more and more they realized that it didn't make sense to develop their own web-based document processing systems.

That's how Snowbound's FlexSnap family of web viewers was born. We are proud to continue to provide software developers with exceptional tools to embed in their applications. It is upon this foundation that we now offer a comprehensive family of exceptional web viewers. Our experience, our robust imaging libraries and the years spent developing them have all come together in our customizable web imaging applications.

-Simon

Writing Viewers is so Much Fun, and so much Work!

Snowbound originally offered only our imaging toolkits from which our customers created all kinds of interesting applications. These applications ranged from viewers to back office server-based applications for document conversion to comprehensive document management systems that embedded our image manipulation technology.

That remains unchanged through today. Many of our customers continue to use our imaging expertise to enhance their applications, while still being able to deploy their own custom solutions, designed for their specific needs.

But as the technology changes, and many of our customers migrated to Java or established a need for web-based viewing and document processing, we moved with them. So for the past several years we have offered powerful Java imaging toolkits as well. In the process of creating demo programs and samples to make life easier for our customers, we found ourselves exceedingly expert in not only developing imaging functions and tools but also in creating powerful viewers and client-server web imaging applications. And as our customers discovered these powerful products, more and more they realized that it didn't make sense to develop their own web-based document processing systems.

And that's how our FlexSnap family of products were born. Sure, we're here to provide the world's best imaging tools but we also now offer the world's best web viewers. Our experience, our knowledge of our imaging libraries and the years spent developing these products all come together when we create our customizable web imaging systems. Now you can jumpstart your development and still get a unique application that is specific to the needs of your customers and your business's needs.

-Simon