Released: Mar 5, 2024

Updates in v23

Features

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine

• .NET MAUI Support
  • Seamless integration for .NET MAUI throughout the LEADTOOLS product line for elevated cross-platform development.
• Excel API and Web Editor
  • LEADTOOLS introduces the new LEADTOOLS Excel API and Excel Web Editor allowing developers to add spreadsheet technology to build robust, intelligent applications.
  • Excel API - The LEADTOOLS Excel API gives developers the power to load existing excel files, create, edit, and save Excel...

Released: Jul 17, 2023

Updates in LEADTOOLS Document SDK

Features

• Added full support for Python.

Released: Dec 14, 2022

Updates in LEADTOOLS Document SDK

Features

• Added support for Microsoft .NET 6 and 7.
• Document Viewer
  • eSignatures - With the new eSignature support, developers can easily add simple signature images to documents and PDFs.
• Document Editor
  • Added new LEADTOOLS Document Editor control for HTML/JavaScript development. The LEADTOOLS Document Editor control provides a word-processor like experience that can load, edit, and save PDF, DOC/DOCX, and RTF formats.
  • Document Editor Data Streaming - The LEADTOOLS Document Editor can stream...

Released: Sep 23, 2021

Updates in v22

Features

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine v22

Office and Text Formats Enhancements

• Office format decryption - LEADTOOLS can decrypt DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, and PPT/PPTX files.
• New option to show hidden Microsoft PowerPoint slides.
• Improved rendering of Microsoft PowerPoint slides, especially when dealing with master and layout slide relationships.
• Load spreadsheets saved as XLSB (Microsoft Excel Binary).
• Major enhancements have been made to the rendering of PST, MSG, and EML formats.
• Load...

Released: Aug 25, 2020

Updates in v21

Features

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 text...

Released: Mar 13, 2019

Updates in V20 (March 2019 release)

Features

• Document SDK
  • New Searchable Document Redaction
    The .NET and HTML5/JavaScript Document Viewers now support redaction of searchable documents. Not only can users redact sensitive information in image formats such as TIFF, but they can redact PDF, DOCX, and other document formats to control what is visible and searchable by other users. To comply with regulatory requirements such as GDPR and HIPAA, the redaction can be applied when the document is viewed or converted while keeping the...

Released: Jun 19, 2018

Updates in V20 (June 2018 release)

Features

File Formats

• Image interpolation for images inside PDF documents
• Custom margins for XLSX and RTF
• Added options for choosing the page size and order when rasterizing and splitting large spreadsheets into multiple pages
• New multiplatform RTF engine with improved rendering and speed
• AFP file format on Linux

Virtual Printer

• Improved print jobs management
• Faster printing/spooling when printing multiple simultaneous jobs
• Lower memory consumption

Additional Toolkit Enhancements

• Dramatically...

Released: Jan 24, 2018

Updates in V20

Features

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
  • CMC-7 MICR Font.
  • Added North American Driver's License Barcode Decoder to Barcode Engine (AAMVA specification).
• Document Formats...

Released: Mar 28, 2017

Updates in v19 (March 2017 Release)

Features

• Fully compatible with Visual Studio 2017
• Recognition SDK Technology - Enhancements to OCR, Forms & OMR, and New Composite Barcode Recognition (available via Add-On)
  • 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...