LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK v21

New in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Engine

• Multimedia SDK Updates
  • Faster ISO format capture and conversion.
  • New live audio processor to detect and fill dropped audio samples.
• Updates to Streaming SDK
  • MPEG-2 transport error detection option added to the LEAD MPEG-2 Transport Multiplexer.
  • Streaming server can use MPEG-2 Transport files for all protocols.
  • Streaming server can use DICOM files as source files.
• Updates to Media Foundation Components
  • New Media Foundation target formats:
    • 3GP: Video (H264) - Audio (AAC and AMRNB).
    • MP3.
    • MPEG-2: Video (H264, HEVC) - Audio (AAC, AAC-ADTS, AC3, MP3, and MPEG-2 Audio).
    • WAVE: Audio only (MP3, PCM, and FLOAT).
    • FLAC.
    • FMPEG4: Video (H264) - Audio (AAC, AC3, and ALAC).
    • AVI: Video (Uncompressed video colors, M-JPEG) - Audio (PCM).
    • MPEG-2 Transport: Video (H264 and HEVC) - Audio (AAC, AAC-ADTS, AC3, MP3, and MPEG-2 Audio).
    • ADTS: Audio (AAC and AAC-ADTS).
    • AC-3: Audio (Dolby AC-3 Audio).
  • Update Media Foundation targets with new audio and video formats
    • MP4: Added audio formats (AC3, ALAC, and FLAC).
    • MKV: Added new video formats (VP8 and VP9) and new audio format (OPUS).
  • Added support for .webm format to LEAD MKV media source.
  • Added support to select between available hardware and software encoders.
  • Added new decoders, encoders and target format:
    • LEAD MCMW Decoder.
    • LEAD MJ2K Decoder.
    • LEAD MCMP Decoder.
    • LEAD MJPEG Decoder.
    • LEAD MJPEG Encoder.
    • AVI Target format.

New in LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine

• Xamarin Camera
  • Added control of preview size and frame rate.
• New Image Processing Functions
  • Extract Object - Extracts connected groups of pixels from an image.
  • Canny Edge Detector.
  • Forms Field Detector.
• Updates to Formats
  • Optimized memory usage for J2K format.
  • Expanded J2K support to include some files that do not follow the specification.
  • Added support to load 8-bit TIFF and PNG files with 8-bit alpha for transparency.
  • Added support for ANSI, UTF7, UTF8, UTF16LE, UTF16BE encoded text files.
  • Added support to load CGM files saved with text encoding.
  • Added support to render Medium Map Overlay for AFP (MODCA) documents.

Additional Changes

• New powerful Xamarin demos that show more features of LEADTOOLS in a Xamarin development environment. These new demos are designed to look like end-user applications, but the source code for them is included so that anyone can get a head start. Below are some of the new demos included in version 21:
  • Annotations Demo.
  • Barcode Demo.
  • Business Card Reader Demo.
  • Camera Demo.
  • Converter Demo.
  • DICOM Demo.
  • Document Viewer Demo.
  • Image Processing Demo.
  • Live Filter Demo.
  • MICR Demo.
  • OCR Demo.
• Maven repository for Android.

Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line in Version 21

• The following products have been renamed:
  • LEADTOOLS Document Imaging to LEADTOOLS Document.
  • LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging to LEADTOOLS Recognition.
  • LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite to LEADTOOLS Document Suite.
  • LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging to LEADTOOLS Medical.
  • LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite to LEADTOOLS Medical Suite.
• The following products have been added.
  • LEADTOOLS Forms - includes all features of the LEADTOOLS Recognition product, including ICR, MICR, MRZ, and OMR, plus forms recognition and processing.
• The following products have been removed.
  • LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging - functionality moved into the LEADTOOLS Medical product.
  • LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Module - functionality moved into the LEADTOOLS Medical product.
  • LEADTOOLS Dental Display Module.
• The LEADTOOLS Document Suite and the Medical family of products include all features of LEADTOOLS Multimedia.