LEADTOOLS Document Suite SDK Releases

Learn what's new across releases, with details of features, enhancements, and resolved issues.

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LEADTOOLS Document Suite v23Major versionMar 5, 2024
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 sheets programmatically. With features such as:
      • Add and delete table columns and rows.
      • General Formatting.
      • Formula Creation.
      • Styling.
      • Merge and split cells.
      • Images.
    • Excel Web Editor - Designed similarly to the Document Editor Control, the LEADTOOLS Excel Web Editor is a full-featured spreadsheet library and easy to integrate into existing HTML/JavaScript applications it includes the following features:
      • Dynamic data manipulation to easily add, edit, or delete rows and columns.
      • Support for multiple worksheets.
      • Formulas and functions capabilities including basic mathematical operations, statistical functions, and date/time functions.
      • Cell formatting including text size, text color, font, backgrounds, and more.
      • Ability to import .XLS and .XLSX documents and export .XLSX.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Recognition Engine

  • .NET MAUI Support
    • Seamless integration for .NET MAUI throughout the LEADTOOLS product line for elevated cross-platform development.
  • OCR, Barcode, and Forms Enhancements
    • New AutoZone and segmentation algorithms for extremely accurate paragraph detection with much stronger OCR results on images of books, newspapers, and magazines.
    • Enhanced 1D and 2D barcode recognition, including new preprocessing algorithms for lightning-fast barcode detection.
    • Expanded support for various font styles.
    • Optimized forms recognition and processing.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Engine

  • New Multi-Capture Video Support
    • Capture and display all the angles you need from virtually any source simultaneously while streaming one audio file.
  • Speech Recognition Toolkit Demo
    • Combines the Multimedia engine and Speech Recognition technology.
    • Dynamically generates captions during real-time playback of a video.
    • Transcribes spoken words from an audio or video file into captions which can then be embedded in the MP4 files.
  • Speech Recognition Web Demo
    • New online demo that uses speech recognition to pick up incoming audio from a microphone and uploads the text directly in a text box for copy/paste.