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LEAD Releases Major Update to LEADTOOLS v16.5 SDKs
Many new features have been added to LEADTOOLS

General Imaging

• Added region of interest compression level support to JPEG 2000.
• New Fast Magic Wand region selection function.
• New rubberband multi-selection feature in LEADTOOLS WPF Image List control.
• New feature to load images faster.

PACS & Medical Imaging

• New PACS Workstation Framework. The LEADTOOLS PACS Workstation Framework is a set of .NET PACS components to build a complete PACS Workstation system. To speed up development, a medical workstation viewer application with source code is included.
• Create, load and save all IOD classes defined in the 2008 base standard and final 2008 DICOM text supplements.
• New Auto Segment Bitmap function. Segments objects in CT/MRI images by shrinking a defined rectangular region onto the objects.
• New Tissue Equalize Bitmap function. Equalizes between hard and soft tissue in x-ray images resulting in an enhanced image.
• New DICOM HD MPEG-2 support.
• New support for 16 bit grayscale images in WPF.
• New Scroll event in the Medical Image Viewer control.
• New Point to Client method in the Medical Viewer Cell class.
• New DICOMDIR dialog.

OCR and Forms Recognition

• Improved OCR Advantage recognition algorithm to improve accuracy.
• New MICR support in OCR Advantage engine.
• New XML output from OCR.
• New Forms Recognition Only demo.
• Improved Forms Recognition documentation including new topics, best practices and examples.
• New Rake Remove Bitmap function to remove data rakes from form images.

PDF Imaging

• New searchable and editable PDF save features including encryption, fast web viewing, size optimization, document author properties, and PDF profiles.
• New PDF Dynamic Resolution demo.

Document Imaging

• New Document Writers for XPS and DOCX.
• New Empty Pages support for Document Writers.
• New Vertical Text support for Document Writers.
• New support for DPI in Document Writers.
• Improved output for text flow formats such as TXT and DOC.
• New support to rasterize Excel XLS files.
• New C DLL snap to grid functionality for annotations.
• Improved Auto Zone function algorithm.
• New Get Background Color function.
• New Sigma Filter Bitmap function to smooth images while maintaining sharp edges.
• New Object Counter function that counts the number of binary objects in an image.

Barcode

• New .NET assembiles for Barcode.
• Improved QR Code error correction algorithm.

Web Imaging

• New functionality to set text in the LEADTOOLS Web Thumbnail Viewer.
• New functionality to clear the Web Image Viewer.
• New Web Forms demo to call LEADTOOLS OCR WCF web service.
• Updated Silverlight Image controls to Silverlight 3.0.

LEADTOOLS JPIP  client/server architecture allows storage of very large, compressed JPEG2000 images at the server, plus transmission of image resolution, quality and region of interest (ROI) as specified by a client. This allows client applications to interact with a stored image without  transmitting the entire image, or decoding the entire image code-stream. The server and client components include a number of options for controlling this image streaming and decoding.

The LEADTOOLS JPIP SDK comprises high level components that developers can easily plug into enterprise client/server applications, allowing them to immediately start streaming high-resolution images under low HTTP bandwidth connections.

LEADTOOLS JPIP Client/Server Key Features:

• Optimizes network efficiency through progressive image transmission, without sending redundant data
• Fast image viewing through progressive decoding of images resolutions, tiles, and components
• Fast, flexible code updates: LEAD's managed code does not depend on third-party libraries
• Comprehensive client and server demos with ability to browse files on the server side
• Suitable for browsing lossless high-resolution medical and geospatial images
• Supports JPEG2000 code-streams and multiple file formats (J2K, JP2 and JPX)
• Supports streaming over HTTP V1.1 transport protocol

Server Component:

• Give fine control over the allocated server bandwidth, total server bandwidth, client connections bandwidth and chunk size
• Enables conservation of server resources through setting the maximum number of client connections, client lifetime, and timeouts
• Enables performance enhancement through splitting the streaming process among multiple servers running on different machines
• Supports interactive client requests and server response handling
• Support configuring aliases for images folders to support hosting in web servers as virtual directories
• Support streaming of JPX metadata boxes with several partitioning options
• Built in support for writing and filtering server event logs to a disk file or any custom data storage

Client Component:

• Decodes low image resolutions and progressively decodes higher resolutions on user request
• Built in user interactive viewer control which is capable of requesting, decoding and displaying users preferred region of interest
• Decodes user-requested regions of interest (ROI), component, and quality
• Enables local caching of images information for faster future viewing
• Controls the amount of data delivered for each request