To further enhance document imaging technologies such as OCR, barcode & forms recognition, LEAD Technologies has developed a large collection of advanced document image processing functions. This powerful collection of functions can rid scanned documents of artifacts & imperfections such as hole punches, skewed angles, borders, dust speckles & more. Clean black and white images are essential to any document imaging workflow due to the increased recognition accuracy, optimized processing speed, & higher compression ratios.

LEADTOOLS provides state of the art Optical Character Recognition, Intelligent Character Recognition, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and Optical Mark SDK technology that is fast and highly accurate for C/C++, C#, VB.NET and Web developers. Leverage LEADTOOLS' high level toolkit to rapidly develop robust, scalable and high-performance recognition and document processing applications which extract text from scanned documents, convert images to text-searchable formats such as PDF, PDF/A, XPS, Microsoft Word and more. With LEADTOOLS' extensive support for over thirty character sets, programmers can expand their customer base by providing the same solution for many languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and more.

LEADTOOLS toolkits include comprehensive PDF reading, writing and viewing technology with advanced capabilities such as the extraction of text, images, hyperlinks and metadata, editing and updating bookmarks and annotations, updating, splitting and merging pages from existing PDF documents, converting to PDF/A as a real document, linearization, and reducing PDF document size with the LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer. Tested against thousands of PDF documents, the LEADTOOLS PDF SDK provides impeccable accuracy which tops many market-leading PDF reading applications. LEADTOOLS accounts for common errors and differences between PDF file versions to give programmers peace of mind, minimize their testing phase and create the best PDF applications on the market.

The LEADTOOLS Documents SDK is a comprehensive collection of .NET (C# & VB) and HTML5/JavaScript development libraries for creating, reading and writing raster and SVG images, annotations, thumbnails, text data and metadata from supported document types. This development framework is perfect for programmers looking to create solutions for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), document retrieval and document normalization.