Kodak/Wang Imaging is a neat program which first came out with Win95 as "Wang Imaging".  Kodak bought it from Wang Laboratories and changed the name so it came with Win98 as "Kodak Imaging".  Kodak later sold Imaging to eiStream, Inc. who started selling it separately rather than licensing it to Microsoft to be bundled with Windows so it disappeared from Windows XP which is a shame as it was a neat little program. You can now buy Imaging for Win XP for an exhorbitant price from www.alliancegroup.co.uk.     ::Update::  It seems Imaging is now owned by Global360.
    Imaging is a great program for something very specific which is to scan, view, edit, handle and annotate documents like faxes and similar documents.  I am not going to go into much detail because if you are reading this you probably already know Imaging.  Whenever I need to scan a document with several pages I use Imaging and scan it directly into a multipage TIFF file.  Using CCITT Fax4 compression gives the best compression efficiency for text. 
    What I like best in Imaging is the capability of making annotations on documents like forms.  You can type, draw, erase, etc.  These annotations can be left as a separate layer, removed or made permanent. 
    When I installed Win XP I spent some hours getting Imaging to work with XP.  I finally found a solution online but it took some time and tinkering.  I found the solution here.   The thread makes for good reading as there is some discussion about whether it is legal to port your Imaging program from Win 9X to Win XP. 
    Unfortunately the geocities link is dead because geocities disappeared.  I was sure I had kept a copy but could not find it when I needed it so I contacted the author, Ruben Benjamin, and he emailed it to me again, for which many thanks.  (Sure enough, as soon as I received it in the email I found the copy I had saved on my hard disk.)  Ruben has given me his permission to host the file here.  To download it click here.  Run the install.bat file and it will do the entire installation automatically. 
    What the BAT file does automatically and which you can do manually if you prefer is the following:  To run correctly in Windows XP, Imaging requires a number of files.  The following is a list of the 23 files that include executable files, ActiveX control files, DLL support files, and the Help files:
   

IMGADMIN.OCX IMGCMN.DLL IMGEDIT.OCX IMGHELP.HLP IMGMGT.CHM IMGMGT.HLP IMGSCAN.OCX IMGSHL.DLL IMGTASKS.CHM IMGTHUMB.OCX IMGVIEW.CHM JPEG1X32.DLL

JPEG2X32.DLL KODAKIMG.EXE KODAKPRV.EXE OIENG400.DLL OIPRT400.DLL OISLB400.DLL OISSQ400.DLL OITWA400.DLL OIUI400.DLL TIFFLT.DLL XIFFR3_0.DLL

    Once the files are extracted and placed in the correct folders, you’ll need to register Imaging’s four ActiveX control (OCX) files as command components in the registry.  To do so, you’ll use the Regsvr32.exe command line utility.  Open a command prompt, change to the C:\Windows\System32 directory, and enter the following four commands:

• regsvr32 IMGADMIN.OCX
• regsvr32 IMGEDIT.OCX
• regsvr32 IMGSCAN.OCX
• regsvr32 IMGTHUMB.OCX

    In Windows 7 it needs to be done a bit differently because the expand command does not copy the files to System 32 due to Windows 7 UAC restrictions.  However we can manually copy the files if we have admin privileges.  Download scanner-win7.zip and then copy the files as administrator:

• 1. Copy the contents of "win7 files" folder into Your Windows\System32 folder.
• 2. Right click on the "install_win7.cmd" and select "Run As Administrator"

Updated 24 Nov 2011 - added Win 7