LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK

What's New in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine V17.5 Re-mastered
The LEADTOOLS Document Imaging engine has received major enhancements, including significant improvements to the speed and accuracy of its OCR, PDF and Barcode engines, as well as new SharePoint integration capabilities.

OCR Advantage
The latest version of LEADTOOLS 17.5 includes dramatically increased speed and accuracy of the OCR Advantage engine.

• Increased speed by up to 300%
• Faster and More accurate table detection
• Auto Orient up to 8x faster
• Improved algorithm for small zones - yielding greater accuracy for Forms Recognition and Processing
• Greatly enhance accuracy of color image recognition using new segment based auto-binarization algorithm

PDF

• Load times between 400% and 800% faster
• PDF Support for v1.7
• Added support for reading with 128 bit AES and 256 bit AESv3 encryption
• Native multithreaded support

SharePoint Integration

• Load and Save images directly to and from SharePoint
• SharePoint integration with other LEADTOOLS features such as OCR, Barcode, File Format Conversion and more

Microsoft Phone 7 Silverlight

• Improved speed for Windows Phone 7 Barcode libraries
• New Live Capture Barcode demo

What's new in Leadtools Document Imaging SDK V17.5

• Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight and Windows Phone
• New high-level Barcode design for .NETsimplifies 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 compatability 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

Overview of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite Technology

• For development of Windows and web applications and includes native 32 and 64 bit imaging binaries
• Add Document Imaging Suite technology to single and multi-threaded applications
• Development tools and components for Silverlight, Win Forms, Web Forms, WPF, C and C++ development
• Includes many broad and functionally specific demo projects with source code for C, Visual C++ (MFC), VB.NET, Silverlight and C#
• Imaging technology available as WCF services
• Imaging technology available as WF activities
• Documentation includes sample source code for every function, method, property and event
• Free technical support is available to customers and developers evaluating LEADTOOLS

Recognition - Forms, OCR, OMR and Barcode
The provided recognition and processing engines fully automate document classification and data extraction for known forms. The recognition engine creates unique XML data for each known form which is used to identify any form requiring recognition. The processing engine uses templates consisting of predefined fields for each known form. These fields can be defined using the Forms application included with the SDK, or developers can create their own template editor using the toolkit. Supported field types include machine and hand written characters, check boxes, filled bubbles, cross marks and barcodes.

For maximum performance, forms recognition and OCR high level interfaces utilize an intelligent multi-threaded algorithm during recognition and processing and are supported in both 32 and 64 bit development.

In addition to saving the recognized data in various structured output formats such as delimited text, XML or database fields, a recognized free form document can be converted to searchable PDF for enterprise data mining.

• Includes the LEADTOOLS OCR Advantage SDK Module
• Includes the LEADTOOLS OCR PDF SDK Module
• Includes the LEADTOOLS 1D Barcode SDK Module
• Includes the LEADTOOLS 2D Barcode SDK Module
• Includes LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition and Processing
• Includes the LEADTOOLS OMR SDK Module

Image Load, Save, Conversion and Compression

• Document formats including searchable PDF, XPS and DOC
• OCR output document formats including searchable PDF, XPS and DOC
• Includes all PDF technology in LEADTOOLS including conversion and compression
• EMF creation and conversion
• Image formats for desktop and web applications
• Archive files and data to CD, DVD and ISO files
• WIC codecs
• High-level image compression optimizer to automatically optimize bit depth and compression settings
• Compress and decompress ABIC image data and formats
• Compress and decompress JPEG image data and formats
• Compress and decompress JPEG 2000 image data and formats
• Compress and decompress CCITT, CCITT G3 and CCITT G4 image data and formats
• Compress and decompress LEAD CMP image data and formats
• Compress and decompress LZW image data and formats
• Compress and decompress RLE and PackBits image data and formats
• Compress and decompress ZIPLIB image data and formats
• Compress and decompress Huffman image data and formats
• Compress and decompress Arithmetic image data and formats
• Compress and decompress LEAD CMW image data and formats
• Compress and decompress LEAD ABC image data and formats
• Load, save and modify image metadata
• Imaging common dialogs
• NITF format
• Imaging specific HTTP and FTP functionality
• Mixed Raster Content
• JPIP

Bitonal and Color Image Processing
To further enhance the accuracy of the recognition process, the Document Imaging Suite SDK includes the LEADTOOLS document image clean-up engine, a set of document image pre-processing tools for deskew and despeckle, as well as line, border and hole-punch removal.

• Document image processing and pre-recognition cleanup
• General image processing
• Image segmentation
• Digital paint technology
• Imaging common dialogs

Image Capture and Acquisition

• Capture technology overview
• Virtual printer driver to capture from any application
• Acquire images and control TWAIN devices and scanners
• Optimize scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN acquisition
• Acquire images and control WIA devices and scanners
• Capture images from the screen

Image Display and Annotation

• Image annotation and markup
• Enhanced bitonal image display
• Image display functions for C and C++
• Image display controls for .NET
• Image display controls for Silverlight
• AJAX Web Form imaging controls
• WPF imaging controls
• Print images to Windows printers

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite can be extended to add more technology
Add-on modules and plug-ins may be added to LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite to add even more imaging technology.

• LEADTOOLS Plus OCR SDK Module
• LEADTOOLS Professional OCR SDK Module
• LEADTOOLS Arabic OCR SDK Module
• LEADTOOLS Asian OCR SDK Module

Sandard Support (Free)
Standard technical support is provided free to all registered LEADTOOLS customers. In addition, LEAD offers free Standard technical support to prospective customers working with evaluation versions of their products. Free Standard technical support includes unlimited email communication and unlimited access to LEAD's online support portal including the community forums and Knowledge base.

Premium Support ($100 per case, $400 - 5 pack of cases )
In addition to free Standard technical support, LEAD offers Premium support on a per "case" basis. Premium support allows customers to contact LEAD's support representatives by telephone. Support representatives may be reached by phone Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 6:00 EST, excluding national holidays.

Annual Maintenance (Annual fee)
By purchasing a LEADTOOLS Annual Maintenance plan, you receive any and all development seat updates, enhancements and new versions released by LEAD during the period of maintenance. In addition to updates and upgrades, as an annual maintenance subscriber, you receive five (5) free Premium Support cases to use during the maintenance period. Finally, a maintenance subscriber is entitled to a 30% discount on additional Premium Support cases over and above the 5 free cases provided with a maintenance subscription.