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, segment and recognize multiple languages on the same document.
• Specialized image enhancements for mobile images.
• Enhanced font support including underlined text and font size detection and recognition.
• Improved image cleanup and preprocessing of dithered and noisy images.
• Increased table cell accuracy.
• Font detection and recognition enhancements.

PDF

• Full support for reading, displaying, editing and writing native PDF Annotations and drawing markup.
• Added comments, highlights, text, arrows, lines, reviews and shapes.
• Convert PDF annotations to and from LEADTOOLS annotations for live editing support.
• Options to control annotation rendering when loading PDF as raster.

Annotations

• Universal design that works across all development platforms and interfaces.
• New rich text object.
• Enhanced printing support.

Barcode

• Auto-preprocessing function detects barcode type and applies different preprocessing algorithms for optimal results.