LEADTOOLS OCR Module Releases

Released: Aug 25, 2020

Updates in v21

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New in LEADTOOLS Document Engine

Document Framework

  • Document Viewer
    • New Document Viewer Component for Xamarin Forms.
    • Added support to load and play any of LEAD's supported video formats in the .NET and Java Document Viewer (Windows only).
    • Client-side PDF rendering enhancements include:
      • Stamp rendering.
      • Memory optimization.
      • Render digital signatures.
      • Switch to service mode based on individual page size or image encoding.
      • Speedup for calRGB/grayscale color space rendering.
    • Customize...

Released: Mar 13, 2019

Updates in V20 (March 2019 release)

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  • Document SDK
    • Revamped OMR Toolkit and Sample Applications
      The Optical Mark Recognition SDK now includes high-level features with a focus on analyzing test sheets and surveys having a large grid of structured and loosely structured bubbles. LEADTOOLS intelligently analyzes the bubbles to automatically determine question groups and multiple-choice answer sets so that users can rapidly define master forms. No longer is the user restricted to a specific form design requiring specialized...

Released: Jan 24, 2018

Updates in V20

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New Platforms:
Developers can now write a unified code base and simultaneously target even more platforms and devices falling under the ever-broadening .NET Standard umbrella.

  • .NET Framework - Windows
  • .NET Standard
    • .NET Core - Windows, Linux, and macOS
    • Xamarin - iOS, Android, and UWP
    • UWP (Universal Windows Platform)

New in Document Engine:

  • Recognition Engines
    • Speed and accuracy improvements to LEAD OCR Engine (formerly Advantage Engine).
    • Answer Area and OMR Date fields for high-level...

Released: Mar 28, 2017

Updates in v19 (March 2017 Release)

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  • Fully compatible with Visual Studio 2017
  • Recognition SDK Technology - Enhancements to OCR, Forms & OMR, and New Composite Barcode Recognition
    • Enhanced the performance of LEADTOOLS OCR, Forms, OMR, and Barcode engines.
    • Improved the speed of the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine by as much as 67%.
    • Improved the recognition results of images containing German and Spanish character sets, in addition to previous improvements for English, French, and Japanese.
    • Updated the Forms engine with...

Released: Nov 19, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in V19 Major Update

LEADTOOLS Document OCR

  • 82% speed boost to overall performance of Advantage OCR engine.
  • Faster page insertion.
  • Improved recognition accuracy.
  • Higher accuracy of font-size detection through improved noise removal.
  • Enhanced spell checker speed by 100%.
  • Optimized memory usage during AutoZone.
  • Table detection 50% faster.

Released: Dec 17, 2014

Updates in this release

Updates in Document Engine V19

New Documents SDK

  • All-new framework for creating, reading and writing raster and SVG images, annotations, thumbnails, text data and metadata from supported document types
    • Document Converter – Convert PDF & office formats at 100% accuracy without the need for OCR
    • Document Viewer – View any format with text search, annotations, lazy loading, and SVG rendering
    • Document Writers – Redesigned to use cross-platform SVG rather than Windows-only EMF
  • Comprehensive...

Released: Feb 11, 2014

Updates in this release

Updates in V18

  • Faster and more accurate results for all OCR engines.
  • Added support for OCR in Linux.
  • Redesigned and expanded Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) algorithm.
  • Increased performance of PDF I/O operations.
  • Full support for Microsoft Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) in the Virtual Printer.
  • Enhanced Office file format loading speed and display quality.

Released: Jan 31, 2013

Updates in this release

Updates in V18

LEADTOOLS Anywhere

  • Extend LEADTOOLS Imaging SDKs to every major development platform including WinRT, iOS, OS X, Android and Linux.
  • All core LEADTOOLS imaging technology is natively supported in each of these platforms, including viewing, annotation and markup, OCR, OMR, forms processing, 1D and 2D barcode, PDF, DICOM and support for 150+ file formats and 200+ image processing functions.

OCR

  • Improved overall speed and recognition accuracy of OCR engine.
  • Automatically detect...

Released: Jan 31, 2013

Updates in this release

Updates in V18

LEADTOOLS Anywhere

  • Extend LEADTOOLS Imaging SDKs to every major development platform including WinRT, iOS, OS X, Android and Linux.
  • All core LEADTOOLS imaging technology is natively supported in each of these platforms, including viewing, annotation and markup, OCR, OMR, forms processing, 1D and 2D barcode, PDF, DICOM and support for 150+ file formats and 200+ image processing functions.

OCR

  • Improved overall speed and recognition accuracy of OCR engine.
  • Automatically detect...

Released: Sep 14, 2012

Updates in this release

Updates in 17.5

Imaging and Vector Engines

  • Load / Convert HTML into a raster image
  • Rasterize vector files (DXF, DWG, SVG) via .NET interface
  • Additional vector options for rasterizing vector drawings such as background fill, bits per pixel and transformation
  • RLE compression for PCL
  • Support for gradient fill and EM units in SVG

General HTML5 Image Viewer Control

  • Support for attaching any interactive mode to mouse wheel
  • Display bitonal images using Scale to Gray interpolation
  • New web service for...