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LEADTOOLS Barcode Module adds Silverlight support

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:05:40 GMT

Recognising barcodes using LEADTOOLS 1D Barcode Module.

Version 17.5 also includes a new set of libraries for Windows Phone.

LEADTOOLS Barcode SDK technology seamlessly integrates the creation, detection and decoding of 1D and 2D barcode symbols with advanced LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK technology. LEADTOOLS is an advanced and comprehensive imaging SDK for reading and writing more than 100 different barcode types and sub-types with speed and accuracy. LEADTOOLS Barcode is available as .NET classes, Silverlight, Windows Phone, C DLL, C++ classes, WCF services and WF activities. Includes native 32-bit and 64-bit barcode binaries. LEADTOOLS 1D Barcode Module supports UPC/EAN, 2 of 5, GS1 DataBar, RSS-14, Code 128, USPS & 4-State, MSI (Modified Plessey), Codabar, Ames Code, USD-4, Code 2 of 7, Code 3 of 9, Patch Code, Code 93, Code 32 and Code 11 (USD-8).

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

A new set of libraries for Silverlight and Windows Phone. This addition makes it easier for developers creating web and mobile applications to implement barcode features which previously required the use of an external server via WCF Services.
Redesigned Barcode .NET interface. This high level and programmer friendly interface can read all barcodes in an image with a single function call. This intuitive new interface also handles the complexities of the extensive collection of barcode symbologies LEADTOOLS supports.

About LEAD Technologies

LEAD Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1990 by Moe Daher and Rich Little. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LEAD was established to commercialize Mr. Daher's inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology. Over the course of LEAD's more than 20 year life span, LEAD has become the established global leader in the digital imaging development tool sector, with a leading market position in all major countries throughout the world. LEAD is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the award winning development toolkit.

Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:04:49 GMT

Performing document cleanup with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging V17.5 also dramatically increases barcode recognition speed by up to 9X.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging includes API, C++ Class Libraries and .NET Class Libraries for Win32 and x64 with features that include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. Also features performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line and staple removal and scanning with TWAIN or ISIS. Now includes JBIG2, ABIC, JPEG2000 and LEAD CMW.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight and Windows Phone
New high-level Barcode design for .NET simplifies adding support for all barcode types in your application without any special knowledge of barcode symbologies
Dramatically increased barcode recognition speed by up to 9X
Automated cleanup for barcodes
PDF updates and improvements
- PDF runtime now requires only a single DLL for distribution
- Merge multiple PDF or Postscript files into a single PDF document
- Split a PDF into multiple documents
- Extract text with properties such as bounding rectangle, font information and color
- Extract hyperlinks, bookmarks and internal links
- Load and save PDF metadata such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords and Producer
- New PDF Document Editor with extended support for adding, replacing, and deleting pages in any PDF file
- Enhanced PDF encryption support
- Convert Postscript files to PDF with full control over distiller, encryption and compatibility settings
- Convert existing PDF files to linearized PDFs(optimized for web viewing)
- Convert existing PDF files to PDF/A-1B
- Save fully customized UNICODE Bookmarks in PDF files
- Added support for multi-threaded PDF load
- Added support for writing PDF 1.3 and 1.6
- New PDF Info Extractor gets information about PDF version, image width, height, bit depth, compression and DPI
OCR Advantage Engine updates and improvements
- AutoZone has been improved to provide fewer, more accurate zones, improving OCR results
- Dramatically accelerated AutoZone detection, improving overall performance for OCR
- Faster Advanced Table Detection, providing better performance when dealing with documents containing tables
- New image pre-processing features to improve OCR results including fixing broken letters, dithered text, inverted text and more.
- Now supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
- Added support for built-in Spellcheckingincluding NHunspell and Microsoft's System.Windows.Controls.SpellCheck engines
Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading Office 2007 formats: DOCX, XLSX and PPTX
- Optimized load performance for DOC format
- Added ability to load Office formats from memory
- Added support for JBIG2 with non-sequential headers (i.e. random access)
- Support for loading refinement segments in JBIG2 format
Increased the speed of the Line Remove image processing function
New ImageColorType function for detecting whether the image is mostly black and white, grayscale or color.
Virtual Printer now supports network printing

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LEADTOOLS Imaging V17.5 improves format support

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:04:00 GMT

Zooming an image using LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK.

Support for JPEG-LS, JPEG-XR ,JPM, VFF, CR2 - Canon, NEF & NRW - Nikon, DNG - Adobe, ORF - Olympus and more added.

LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK provides developers with the tools to create powerful imaging applications. LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro provides basic and advanced color imaging features for file format import/export, image compression, image display and effects, color conversion, image processing, TWAIN scanning, imaging common dialogs, database integration, printing and Internet with support for over 150 raster file formats and over 2000 effects.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

New File Formats
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG-XR
- JPM
- VFF
New Digital Camera Formats (DCF)
- CR2 - Canon
- NEF & NRW - Nikon
- DNG - Adobe
- ORF - Olympus
- ARW, SR2 & SRF - Sony
- RAW & RW2 - Panasonic
- RAF - Fujifilm
Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading OS/2 BMP 16-bit
- Support for loading PNG 1+1
Support for ARGB4 color conversion

About LEAD Technologies

Localize your Medical Imaging applications

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:03:00 GMT

Viewing images using LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging V17.5 now fully supports customization and localization.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes hand-picked and optimized features to meet the specific needs of medical imaging application development, such as full DICOM dataset support, support for 8-16 bit grayscale, and 12 and 16 bit image processing and display with window leveling and LUT processing. DICOM 3, the industry standard medical imaging format/protocol is fully and completely supported, allowing programmers access to medical images retrieved from digital imaging modalities such as CT and MR scanners. LEAD's DICOM imaging support is one of the richest in the industry supporting 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit images including JPEG (8, 10 , 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12-bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full), and single and multi-page images. LEAD's Medical Imaging toolkit includes 8-16 bit grayscale display with window leveling. Window leveling is a linear conversion from stored pixel values to values to be displayed; LEADTOOLS can map the stored pixel values of interest using a user defined color map (using a LUT or Palette) or linear gray LUT.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Medical Workstation now fully supports customization and localization. Users can easily change the look and feel or language strings of the Medical Workstation for re-branding or localization purposes.
New DICOM Modality Worklist (MWL) WCF Service Component for the PACS Framework
Medical Image Viewer Features and Enhancements
- Added options for customizing the border of cells in the viewer
- Exposed more low-level annotation features
- Image Orientation tag automatically updates based on the current image orientation
- Added GetScale method, so user can get the current image scale value
- Added feature to allow the user to change the active sub-cell programmatically
- Added MatchScale method to allow users to make all the other cells match the scaling value of the specified cell
- Added Cobb Angle annotation tool
- Added user interface tools for Image Alpha(Sigmoid, Exponential and Logarithmic)
- Added VirtualImage property which allows the user to receive advanced details and status regarding the cell. This is useful for MPR, Derivative and Low Memory Usage cells.
- Empty cells with no assigned image can now be active, utilize tools and display text/tags
- Added Drag and Drop support for cells
- New image display and scaling options: UseDpi, FitIfLarger, Stretch, Explode
- New MPRType property to identify the axis for localization purposes
- Advanced synchronization tools including multiple series and viewer control instances
- Added GetPage method to allow user to get the desired frame from any cell type
3D Features and Enhancements
- Added support for Curved MPR/ Panoramic Polygon
- Added ability to generate and view Paraxial Cuts
- Added the ability to programmatically set the index of the MPR cell
- Added ImageLoaded event
DICOM Features and Enhancements
- New DLL dedicated to the internal DICOM tables, reducing deployment footprint
- Ability to load DICOM tables from XML, making customization simpler
- Get and Set encapsulated documents from memoryand disk
- Added support for YBR_FULL Photometric Interpretation with uncompressed and RLE-compressed DICOM image pixel data
- Added support for DICOM JPEG-LS Lossy and Lossless transfer syntaxes

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LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK optimizes HD capture

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:02:34 GMT

Adding a compressor processor to a video with LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK.

Version 17.5 also adds HTTP Tunneling support, which allows users to stream data from RTSP cameras on another network.

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK lets you capture, play, and edit multimedia files. As well as the latest DirectShow filters and multimedia file support you can load/convert to and from many multimedia formats (AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, ISO (MP4, 3GPP, AAC, AVC1, MOV), XVID, ASF, WMV , WAV, WMA, OGG, etc). Get programmatic control over multimedia processors, compressors, video and audio inputs, types and sub-types; as well as increased camera control (brightness, contrast, zoom, etc); more flexible capturing options and much more.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Simplified redistribution of Multimedia .NET interface which does not require registration
Optimized Motion JPEG 2000 Codec to support multiple cores, making it up to 8x faster
Optimized HD Capture and channel selection
Push Windows Media Content to a Windows Media Server with new LEAD MMS Sink Filter (included with the Video Streaming Module)
New LEAD RLE Decoder for play or converting Quicktime and MP4 files using RLE compression
MPEG-2 Transport Multiplexer now supports UAV Datalink Minimum Metadata Set (MISB STD 0902.1)
Improved the speed of KLV data extraction from MPEG-2 Transport files
RTSP filter now supports HTTP Tunneling, which allows users to stream data from RTSP cameras on another network
RTSP Source now supports µ-Law and a-Law audio (Cisco WVC210v camera)
Added support for live and on-demand IIS Smooth Streaming
LEAD Windows Media Reader now supports playback of Windows Media Streams whose format changes during streaming
Embed metadata and scripts into Windows Media Stream
Combine multiple audio streams with the new LEAD Audio Mixer Filter
UDP Source now supports raw uncompressed streams conforming to RFC4175
New utility for enabling and disabling the use of Media Foundation modules in Windows Media Player
Added closed captioning support to the MPEG-2 Decoder
Convert closed captioning information to readable formats such as SubRip (SRT) or Text
Save the settings of the target format in the convert module
Fast and efficient creation of ISO/MP4 files with new Fast Save option
Extended maximum file size and time limit of ISO/MP4 files to over 4GB and 8 hours
Improved the performance of the Dynamic Frame Rate Controller

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LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro improves performance

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:01:26 GMT

Defining vector properties using LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro SDK.

Version 17.5 optimizes load performance of PCL and CGM formats.

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging SDK includes a low level API, and C++ Class library to add, edit, delete, rotate, translate, and scale objects. Group objects into layers. Change camera and lights. OpenGL, DirectX or GDI engines supported. Convert and save vector images to any of the over 150 raster file formats supported by LEAD.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Added support for loading PCL6
Optimized load performance of PCL and CGM formats
CGM view options now support Virtual Device Coordinates (VDC)
Added support for loading different DXF paper spaces
Added Geometric text support for DXF
Added CMYK RLE raster data support within PCL
Added support in DWF filter to load according to sheet dimensions

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Virtual Printer SDK Module now available

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:29:00 GMT

Saving a print job as an image with LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module.

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module captures print output and saves as EMF or any of 150+ supported image formats.

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module includes a programmable virtual printer driver that can capture output from any application as EMF and save it as a searchable document format or any of the over 150 image formats supported by LEADTOOLS. Additionally, the LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module includes several document writers to programmatically convert output from the virtual printer or EMF to several popular searchable document formats including PDF and DOCX.

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module is also available as part of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK.

Features

Native 32 and 64 programmable virtual printer driver
Add to any single or multi-thread application
Capture output from any application including Word, Excel and web browsers
Supports several searchable and editable output document formats including PDF, DOC, XPS and text
Supports over 150 output image formats including PDF
Redirect print jobs to disk, memory, database or SharePoint
Create a Print to PACS solution when used with the LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging
Automate workflow by creating multiple task based virtual printers
For development of Windows applications and includes native 32 and 64 bit Virtual Printer binaries
Add Virtual Printer technology to single and multi-threaded applications
Includes many broad and functionally specific demo projects with source code for C, Visual C++ (MFC), VB.NET and C#
Documentation includes sample source code for every function, method, property and event
Free technical support is available to customers and developers evaluating LEADTOOLS
Capture output from any application with LEADTOOLS programmable virtual printer driver
Convert EMF to searchable and editable document formats

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module Seamlessly Adds Virtual Printer Technology to:
The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module is an add-on to the following products:

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK (Advantage OCR SDK Module is already included).

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LEADTOOLS Document Imaging 17.0 released

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:36:00 GMT

Performing document cleanup with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK.

Latest release adds Silverlight class libraries and controls, plus updates to OCR and forms recognition technologies.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK includes API, C++ Class Libraries and .NET Class Libraries for Win32 and x64 with features that include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. It also features performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line and staple removal and scanning with TWAIN or ISIS. Now includes JBIG2, ABIC, JPEG2000 and LEAD CMW.

The following products are available:

Updates in V17.0

LEADTOOLS V17.0 has an extensive offering of new imaging technology and enhancements. A substantial portion of LEADTOOLS functionality including image format load and save, image processing, compression, display, effects and annotation is optimized to support 100% pure Silverlight development and can be used in Silverlight without external dependencies or server calls. LEAD also now offers a .NET class library solution and x64 bit OS support for all functionality across the Document, Medical, Multimedia, and Raster imaging engines.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Document Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
New Silverlight viewers. Image viewer, image list, pan window, and magnifying glass pixel shader.
New Silverlight codecs. Load, save and convert more than 100 formats and subformats including TIFF, JBIG, JBIG2, IOCA, FAX (CCITT Group3/4), JPEG 2000, JPEG, BMP, CALS, GIF, PNG, TGA, DICOM, and EXIF in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight image processing functions. Process images on Silverlight clients with more than 130 advanced image processing functions including bicubic and favor black resize, border, dot, hole punch and line removal.
New Silverlight annotations. Load, save, create and edit image annotations (markups) in Silverlight clients. Annotation object types include Rectangle, Ellipse, Highlight, Line, Redact, Text, Ruler, Protractor, CrossProduct, Image, TextPointer, Point, Curve, Point, Polygon and Polyline.
New Silverlight pixel shaders. Apply visual effects in Silverlight clients with more than 150 pixel shaders.
Load PowerPoint, XLS and XLSX files as images.
Save linearized PDF and PDF/A files.
Export LEADTOOLS annotations as PDF documents.
Create PDF bookmarks.
New Arabic OCR module. Convert images of Arabic text into text, DOC, PDF and more.
Improved Asian OCR engine recognition results. Improved support for Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese character sets.
New text orientation options to recognize vertical, left rotated and right rotated text.
New DOCX and XLSX output for OCR and Document Writers.
Improved table detection in the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine.
Enhanced font detection in the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine to include the detection of bold, italic, mono and proportional spacing.
Improved accuracy and speed of the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine.
Expanded constrained ICR support to be included with the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine.
New Forms Recognition and Processing applications with project source code to define master forms, and to recognize and process forms.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Raster Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
.NET 4.0 binaries
New Visual Studio 2010 projects from all .NET and Silverlight sample applications
Enhanced WPF viewer controls
WPF Pixel Shaders
Added multi-monitor support to screen capture
Load PowerPoint files as an image
Word Doc files as an image
Excel XLS files as an image
Added folder watch feature to the LEADTOOLS Thumbnail Browser so that the Thumbnail Browser can automatically update when files are modified, added or deleted to the folder.

For more information visit:
http://www.leadtools.com/corporate/pr/LEAD17Document.pdf (Adobe PDF)

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LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK 17.0 released

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:36:00 GMT

Adding effects to a photograph with LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK.

Latest release features faster image handling and processing, enhanced WPF viewer controls and .NET 4.0 binaries.

LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK provides developers with the tools to create powerful imaging applications. Become an imaging expert instantly using LEADTOOLS components. Why waste months coding when you can take advantage of LEAD's 18 years of imaging experience in a comprehensive SDK and cut your programming time in half. LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro provides basic and advanced color imaging features for file format import/export, image compression, image display and effects, color conversion, image processing, TWAIN scanning, imaging common dialogs, database integration, printing and Internet with support for over 150 raster file formats and over 2000 effects.

The following products are available:

Updates in V17.0

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Raster Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
.NET 4.0 binaries
New Visual Studio 2010 projects from all .NET and Silverlight sample applications
Enhanced WPF viewer controls
WPF Pixel Shaders
Added multi-monitor support to screen capture
Load PowerPoint files as an image
Word Doc files as an image
Excel XLS files as an image
Added folder watch feature to the LEADTOOLS Thumbnail Browser so that the Thumbnail Browser can automatically update when files are modified, added or deleted to the folder.

About LEAD Technologies

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging 17.0 released

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:36:00 GMT

Viewing a DICOM sample file with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK.

Latest version adds DICOM dataset support, viewers, codecs and image processing functions for Silverlight.

The following products are available:

Updates in V17.0

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Medical Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
New Silverlight DICOM dataset support. Create, load, view, edit and save DICOM datasets including pixel data, elements and annotations in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight viewers. Image viewer, image list, pan window, and magnifying glass pixel shader.
New Silverlight codecs. Load, save and convert more than 100 formats and subformats including DICOM, TIFF, JBIG, JBIG2, IOCA, FAX (CCITT Group3/4), JPEG 2000, JPEG, BMP, CALS, GIF, PNG, TGA, and EXIF in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight image processing functions. Process images on Silverlight clients with more than 130 advanced image processing functions including Window Level, Multiscale Enhancement, Tissue Equalization, Adaptive Contrast, Unsharp Mask, Auto Segment, Digital Subtract and Add Bitmaps.
New Silverlight annotations. Load, save, create and edit image annotations (markups) in Silverlight clients. Annotation object types include Rectangle, Ellipse, Highlight, Line, Redact, Text, Ruler, Protractor, CrossProduct, Image, TextPointer, Point, Curve, Point, Polygon and Polyline.
New Silverlight pixel shaders. Apply visual effects such as Window Level in Silverlight clients with more than 150 pixel shaders.
New Medical 3D module. Construct and view a 3-dimensional volume from a set of homogenous 2-dimensional medical images. Provides several rendering methods and tools for advanced visualization including MPR, A volume is constructed with Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR) by stacking axial slices. Slices of the volume are then cut in a different plane. VRT, A volume is constructed with VRT (Volume Rendering Technique) by assigning an opacity range to CT values to provide a clear definition of object outlines or a translucent visualization of objects. MIP, A volume is constructed with MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the maximum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MIP reconstructions are useful for angiographic studies. MinIP A volume is constructed with MinIP (Minimum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the minimum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MinIP reconstructions are useful for assessing lung structures. and SSD. A volume is constructed with Shaded Surface Display (SSD) by applying a surface to a structure of interest within the volume. SSD provides a realistic 3D view of objects of interest. Viewing options include planes, clip, slab, scale, zoom, threshold, image processing, and full camera control. 3D rendering can be stand alone or hosted in the high-level LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer control to leverage the built-in tools and automation provided by the viewer control. Medical 3D module is available as an add-on or included in the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite SDK.
New support included with the LEADTOOLS PACS Framework:
- New DICOM Router components. Route images to one or more PACS based on user-defined business rules.
- New DICOM Work List components. IHE compliant server and client components for Modality Work List (MWL), Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS).
- New DICOM High-Level Storage, Query and Retrieve Services. IHE compliant server and client components for DICOM Storage, Query and Retrieve.
Updates to the LEADTOOLS PACS Workstation Framework
- Added support to create, manipulate and render 3D volumes from DICOM stacks.
- Added cut-plane on 2D DICOM slices to generate 3D volumes with interactive support for positioning, orientation and volume thickness.
- Added DICOM series reference line and orientation tag support.
- Added extensive options to control the process of DICOM image storage into the Workstation database with the ability to generate images with different formats.
- Enhanced Workstation listener service logging and added new event log viewer.
New Print to PACS application with project source code. Captures image data from printer driver, TWAIN, WIA, image file, clipboard, or screen capture and then saves the resultant DICOM file to disk or stores it to PACS using C-STORE. Includes options to get the required metadata from manual entry, Modality WorkList or PACS Queries.
Updates to layout control in the LEADTOOLS Medical Viewer
- Supports unconstrained (non-grid) cell layouts.
- Cells can host other WinForm controls such as the InternetBrowserControl.
- Cells can be hosted by other WinForm controls.
- Added new 3D cell type to the Medical Image Viewer control to render and manipulate 3D volumes providing several rendering methods and tools for advanced visualization including MPR, A volume is constructed with Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR) by stacking axial slices. Slices of the volume are then cut in a different plane. VRT, A volume is constructed with VRT (Volume Rendering Technique) by assigning an opacity range to CT values to provide a clear definition of object outlines or a translucent visualization of objects. MIP, A volume is constructed with MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the maximum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MIP reconstructions are useful for angiographic studies. MinIP A volume is constructed with MinIP (Minimum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the minimum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MinIP reconstructions are useful for assessing lung structures. and SSD. A volume is constructed with Shaded Surface Display (SSD) by applying a surface to a structure of interest within the volume. SSD provides a realistic 3D view of objects of interest. Viewing options include planes, clip, slab, scale, zoom, threshold, image processing, and full camera control.
- Added image overlapping.
New image processing functions:
- New tissue equalization function to enhance x-ray images by performing equalization between hard and soft tissues.
- New anisotropic diffusion function to enhance medical images by removing noise while maintaining image integrity.
- New auto segment image processing function to automatically segment CT and MRI images by shrinking a defined rectangular region onto objects in the image.
- New mean shift image processing filter to enhance images based on the color distance of a pixel and the pixels in a radius of inspection.
New DICOM dataset edit control.
Import and export DICOM to XML to easily edit and compare DICOM datasets.
Up to date DICOM IOD tables.
New support for the Analyze medical file format.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Raster Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
.NET 4.0 binaries
New Visual Studio 2010 projects from all .NET and Silverlight sample applications
Enhanced WPF viewer controls
WPF Pixel Shaders
Added multi-monitor support to screen capture
Load PowerPoint files as an image
Word Doc files as an image
Excel XLS files as an image
Added folder watch feature to the LEADTOOLS Thumbnail Browser so that the Thumbnail Browser can automatically update when files are modified, added or deleted to the folder.

For more information visit:
http://www.leadtools.com/corporate/pr/LEAD17Medical.pdf (Adobe PDF)

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LEADTOOLS Multimedia 17.0 released

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:36:00 GMT

Adding a compressor processor to a video with LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK.

Latest version adds .NET class libraries and controls, plus 64-bit binaries.

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK lets you add multimedia functionality such as Capture, Play, and Edit, as well as the latest DirectShow filters and multimedia file support to your applications. You can load/convert to and from many multimedia formats (AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, ISO (MP4, 3GPP, AAC, AVC1, MOV), XVID, ASF, WMV , WAV, WMA, OGG, etc). Get programmatic control over multimedia processors, compressors, video and audio inputs, types and sub-types; as well as increased camera control (brightness, contrast, zoom, etc); more flexible capturing options and much more. 100% compatible with Windows Vista.

Updates in V17.0

LEADTOOLS V17.0 has an extensive offering of new imaging technology and enhancements. A substantial portion of LEADTOOLS functionality including image format load and save, image processing, compression, display, effects and annotation is optimized to support 100% pure Silverlight development and can be used in Silverlight without external dependencies or server calls. LEAD also now offers a .NET class library solution and x64bit OS support for all functionality across the Document, Medical, Multimedia, and Raster imaging engines.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Multimedia Engine

New 64 bit binaries for capture, conversion and playback, filters and codecs such as H.264, MPEG-4 and MPEG-2.
New .NET class library for multimedia capture, conversion and playback.
New support to capture video from HD digital tuners.
New LEAD RTSP source filter. Play RTSP streams in the following formats: H.264 video, JPEG video and AAC audio.
LEAD MPEG-2 Transport UDP Source accepts raw RTP streams.

For more information visit:
http://www.leadtools.com/corporate/pr/LEAD17mm.pdf (Adobe PDF)