Microsoft has worked hard to make .NET and SQL Server a powerful combination - and VistaDB brings that capability to a small, easy to deploy package. Instead of having to ship a large installation which has to be set up independently for your application to work you can just ship 2 MB of extra assemblies with your .NET application. It's easy to make applications that start with VistaDB and scale up with SQL Server, all from a common codebase.

Use OCR.NET component to retrieve text from image, for example from scanned paper document.
uses Tesseract OCR engine and Leptonica image processing library
available for .NET 2 - 4.7
source code included in registered version
royalty free distribution in applications

Best Document Imaging SDK
Document viewing, processing, printing and scanning (TWAIN & WIA).
Built-in fast and accurate document conversion engine (ie: docx to pdf).
Reading, cleaning, writing and converting documents in more than 100 formats, TIFF, PDF, DOCX, DICOM & JBIG2 included.
OMR, OCR, MICR, Document Recognition, barcode reading and writing (linear & 2D).
Annotations for image and PDF within Windows and Web applications.
Color detection & MRC engine for image and PDF compression.

ImageGear for .NET adds enterprise-class image viewing, processing and editing functions easily to any application, with support for more than 100 file formats and expanded functionality such as optical character recognition (OCR), barcode recognition and support for medical DICOM images.

Components for interprocess communication (IPC) through Named Pipes. Includes client, server, and external process execution components for simple peer-to-peer communication between processes. IP*Works! IPC is a suite of components for inter-process communications (IPC) through Named Pipes. The component suite includes client, server, and remote execution components enabling straightforward peer-to-peer communication between related or unrelated processes.

Increase your productivity by focusing on the all important business domain issues and let CodeTrigger generate most of your boiler-plate code behind the scenes. CodeTrigger is a C# code generator available as a stand alone product on Windows, or integrated into your Visual Studio development environment. Designed to work with SQL Server 2005+, Oracle 11g/12c, MySQL 5.5+ importing pre-defined database schemas and modelling the relations in your multi-tier WPF/WCF/Winforms/Web application, thereby leaving your team free to concentrate on higher level domain technicalities.

Atalasoft's DotImage SDK provides robust viewing technology for captured documents. Scan, view, convert, edit, annotate, and transform paper and electronic documents in your desktop and web applications. TWAIN (Technology Without an Interesting Name) is a scanning driver communication specification standard used for writing device drivers for scanner agnostic applications.

JustDecompile is available for free download individually, or it can be purchased with priority support as a part of DevCraft - the most comprehensive HTML5 and .NET toolbox. JustDecompile is fast. In fact, really fast. When tested against the leading competitors, for .NET framework decompilation time, JustDecompile came out 10 times faster than the leading commercial decompiler. Try it and verify the results for yourself.

Telerik UI for Silverlight includes a wide range of controls from small UI components such as Rating to powerful data-driven controls like GridView. The suite provides a variety of data visualization tools which allow you to display and edit your data in many different ways. Manipulate your row data in a GridView or Spreadsheet and then visualize it through PivotGrid, or any of the other charting and diagramming tools. Choose from a number of components for daily or business planning such as ScheduleView where users can easily plan their day and GanttView which allows users to visualize and manage any project planning data. Telerik UI for Silverlight comes complete with customizable UI controls for a variety of needs and options, which makes it the ideal choice for any Line of Business Application.

Use Telerik Report Server as a standalone report management solution or integrate it easily with your application. Manage all server assets through RESTful APIs. Create custom business objects as report data. Authenticate users with Active Directory integration. Enjoy flexible rebranding. You can use Telerik Report Server as a standalone report management solution out of the box, with no additional coding required. You just need to make an initial set up through the web management console on the server to enable report creation, management, previewing and sharing. Utilize a variety of line-of-business features with just a few clicks.