LEADTOOLS Document Imaging

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Build professional document imaging into your applications. 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.

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LEADTOOLS Document Imaging V15.0

Our prices include ComponentSource technical support and, for most downloadable products, an online backup and a FREE upgrade to the new version if it is released within 30 days of your purchase.  All sales are made on our standard Terms and Conditions and subject to our Return Policy. Please contact us if you require any licensing option not listed above including volume licensing and previous versions.

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What's New in V15.0

• 64 Bit Support - In addition to Win32 support, LEADTOOLS Raster, Document, Medical and Vector toolkits now provide support for developing applications to target Windows XP 64-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit.  The toolkit includes 32 and 64-bit API, C++ Class Library and .NET Class Library interfaces
• Dramatically Improved Performance - Increased speed of the LEADTOOLS engines including encoders/decoders (CCITT G3, CCITT G4, JBIG, ABC, JPEG, etc) and many of the image processing functions
• Web Forms - Develop rich interactive web-based applications using ASP .NET
  • A Web ImageViewer control for displaying an image on an ASP.NET 2.0 web form
  • The ImageViewer is used to display any image file format supported by web browsers (JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP)
  • Includes an HTTP handler to serve non-browser supported formats
  • Large image support through tiling
  • Includes an HTTP handler to get file information for files on the server or accessible via http
  • The ImageViewer control can automatically handle zooming and scrolling
• New Features Added to the .NET Library
• Special Effects for image display
• Screen Capture
• DICOM and DICOM Communication
• Barcode reading and writing
• New File Formats in .NET
• DJV
• SID
• TFX
• PCT
• FPX
• WMZ
• .NET Viewer and ImageList Enhancements
• Multi-select with mouse
• Rubberband select
• Pan window with Annotations
• Magnifying Glass with Annotations
• Color Conversion Enhancements - Read and write ICC Profiles from images
• Databind Support for .NET Viewer Control – Use the .NET database engine to store and retrieve images to/from any database supported by .NET.
• New interpolation options for image resize:
• Triangular-peaked weighting
• Hermite
• Bell
• Quadratic B-Spline
• Cubic B-Spline
• BoxFilter (Nearest Neighbor)
• Lanczos
• Michell
• Cosize
• CatmullRom
• Quadratic
• Cubic Convolution
• Bilinear
• Bresenham
• Image Histogram Dialog - Medical Imaging demo that shows how LEADTOOLS functionality can segment, redistribute, and remove noise from the image data. This demo supports most Medical image types including 12 and 16-bit grayscale images, images with signed or un-signed data, and images with a LUT
• Printing function using GDI+ - A new function which uses GDI+ for optimized and fast printing of images. It produces a smaller spooler file size, which will increase the speed of the printing over a network

Document Imaging's Key Features

Annotations
Powerful annotation capabilities which enable the addition of text, highlights, sticky notes, audio, ellipses, circles, squares, buttons, lines, arrows, rectangles, polygons, redaction (blackout), hotspots, freehand scribble, pointers, images, stamps, rulers and hyperlinks all with multilayer security features, to document, color and grayscale images. Annotation functionality is included with both the Document Imaging and Medical Imaging toolkits.

Display, Memory and Processing Optimizations
All of the display functionality in the Raster Imaging products, plus specialized display options called bitonal scaling for greatly increasing the quality and readability of black and white images on the screen are included in the Document Imaging toolkits.

Zoom View LEADTOOLS provides a "zoomed view" feature that can be attached to a window handle. The Zoom View gives you the ability to "zoom in" on the image loaded into the window to which it is attached.

Faster loading and viewing speeds and reduced requirements for end-users are a result of the Document Imaging products capacity to keep images compressed in memory. Additionally, advanced algorithms, such as the FastRotate function, take full advantage of these memory optimizations to make the process instantaneous.

Image Acquisition - TWAIN Capture
TWAIN drivers are standard with almost all scanner and other image acquisition hardware. Also, with recent advancements, LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN is the technology of choice for performance and reliability. LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products currently support all functionality included in the TWAIN v1.9 specification.

Document Cleanup
When scanning or faxing, the result is frequently a degraded version of the original document.  This makes it difficult to read, introduces errors when performing OCR, and increases the storage requirement of the image.  Within the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging and Medical Imaging toolkits, the document cleanup family of functions can restore or even improve the scanned image relative to its original document quality.  These functions include:

• Hole punch removal
• Noise removal
• Bump removal
• Inverted text detection and removal
• Line removal
• Despeckle
• Deskew
• Dilation
• Erosion

Specialized Storage and Compression
Mixed Raster Content (MRC) uses a technique of dividing images into image and text components and then uses a compression especially suited for that type of image to get the best compression and quality possible.

JBIG is a bitonal image compression that uses several advanced techniques to compress bitonal images with no loss and consistently maintains much better compression ratios as compared to CCITT compression techniques.

JBIG2 is used for reading and writing files with JBIG2 compression. JBIG2 compression is superior to LZW, TIFF Group 4 and other 1 bit compression.

ABIC used for reading and writing ABIC files. ABIC is a compression format for compressing check images.

CMW is an advanced compression that is better than JPEG2000 in quality, speed and compression ratios. LEADTOOLS CMW includes support for multiple resolutions. This makes your applications faster and more memory efficient because the entire file does not have to be loaded and decompressed just to load a low resolution image.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
OCR will convert images into text to be used as strings in code or can be saved as several document, database and spreadsheet formats. OCR functionality is included with the Document Imaging Suite toolkit.

Barcode
Barcodes have been used in document imaging for years to help identify the document, information about the document or for many other possible reasons. Because barcodes are so useful in document imaging applications, LEAD has made available for purchase several barcode add-on options to meet your specific application needs.

General Imaging Features
Making the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging product line the most diverse and robust document imaging product available, LEAD has also included general (bitonal, grayscale and color) imaging features including Image Processing (Transforms, Filters, Drawing, Region of Interest), Color Conversion, Display, Special Effects (choose from more than 2000 effects), Compression, Image Format (import/export), Printing, Internet/intranet imaging (Web Forms), Database imaging, Imaging Common Dialogs and Screen Capture.

Programming Interfaces
Included programming interfaces: A low level API, C++ Class Library and .NET components. LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products ship with sample source code for C/C++, Visual C++ (MFC), C# and VB.NET.

LEADTOOLS now includes Unicode support.