About LEADTOOLS Document SDK

Develop powerful document-enabled applications.

LEADTOOLS Document is ideal for developing document and document imaging applications. Features include PDF viewing, comprehensive annotation and markup, specialized bitonal image displaying, and image processing. Other features include performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image cleanup, including inverted text, border, hole-punch, and line removal, and scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN and WIA.

LEADTOOLS Document is the entry-level product for developing document and document imaging applications with LEADTOOLS. More advanced features including document editing, OCR, forms recognition, and HTML5/JavaScript viewing are available within more advanced LEADTOOLS toolkits.

LEADTOOLS Document SDK Includes:

  • Documents - Create, Load, Save, View, Convert, Sign
    • Document Framework - The LEADTOOLS Document Framework is a comprehensive collection of .NET (C# & VB) and HTML5/JavaScript development libraries and components to create, read, analyze, mark up, and update raster and SVG images, annotations, thumbnails, text data, and metadata.
    • Document Compare - The LEADTOOLS Document Compare SDK is an OEM-ready, zero-footprint document-comparison solution for HTML5/JavaScript front ends with a Microsoft .NET (IIS & Kestrel), or Java (Linux/Apache) hosted back end.
    • Document Converter - With LEADTOOLS Document Converter SDK libraries, developers can create powerful, automated document conversion, archival, and delivery systems.
    • Document Viewer - The LEADTOOLS Document Viewer SDK is an OEM-ready, document-viewing solution for .NET (C# & VB) and HTML5/JavaScript. Developers can create robust, full-featured applications with rich document-viewing features, including text search, annotation, memory-efficient paging, inertial scrolling, and vector display.
    • Document Writers - LEADTOOLS Document Writers libraries are a powerful and flexible development tool that converts a wide variety of document image sources into document formats such as PDF and PDF/A, XPS, ePUB and MOBI, ALTOXML, Microsoft Word (DOC/DOCX), Microsoft Excel (XLS), HTML, RTF, and Text.
  • PDF
    • View and Convert PDF Documents as Vector with SVG.
    • Merge, Split, Convert, Linearize, and Distill PDF files.
    • Read and Extract text, bookmarks, hyperlinks, metadata, and more from PDF.
    • Convert images such as JPEG or TIFF to image-based PDF.
    • Convert PDF to an image format such as JPEG or TIFF.
    • Optimize PDF documents with LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer.
    • Capture print jobs and convert to PDF from any application.
    • Compress image-based PDF files.
  • Bitonal and Color Image Processing
    • Document image processing and pre-recognition cleanup.
    • General image processing.
    • Image segmentation.
    • Imaging common dialogs.
  • Image Display and Annotation
    • Image Viewers.
    • HTML5/JavaScript Viewers.
    • Image annotation and mark up.
    • Enhanced bitonal image display.
  • Virtual Printer, Image Capture, and Scanning
    • Virtual Printer driver to capture print jobs from any application.
    • Acquire images and control TWAIN devices and scanners.
    • HTML5/JavaScript Web Scanning with TWAIN or SANE.
    • Optimize scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN acquisition.
    • Acquire images and control SANE devices and scanners.
    • Acquire images and control WIA devices and scanners.
    • Capture images from the screen.
    • Print images to Windows printers.
  • Image Load, Save, Conversion, and Compression
    • Load, save, and convert more than 165 raster image and document formats, including:
      • JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, PDF, DOC/DOCX, SVG and more.
    • Industry-standard and proprietary compression and decompression, including:
      • JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XR, JBIG & JBIG2, CCITT, CCITT G3 and CCITT G4, ABIC, LZW, RLE and PackBits, ZIPLIB, LEAD CMP, LEAD CMW, LEAD ABC.
    • Load, edit, save, and convert vector file formats.
    • Create document formats including searchable PDF, XPS, and DOCX.
    • Load, save, and convert both raster image and searchable PDF files.
    • Load, save, and modify image metadata.
    • OCR output document formats, including searchable PDF, XPS, and DOC.
    • SVG creation and conversion.
    • EMF creation and conversion.
    • Archive files and data to CD, DVD, and ISO files.
    • JPIP.
    • High-level image compression optimizer to automatically optimize bit depth and compression settings.
    • Imaging common dialogs.
    • Mixed Raster Content (MRC).
  • LEADTOOLS Document can be Upgraded to Add Specialized Technology
    • The LEADTOOLS Document is the base SDK for other more advanced LEADTOOLS products. These more advanced products include all of the technology contained in the LEADTOOLS Document product and add supplementary and specialized technology.
      • LEADTOOLS Edit SDK.
      • LEADTOOLS Recognition SDK.
      • LEADTOOLS Forms SDK.
      • LEADTOOLS Document Suite SDK.
      • LEADTOOLS Medical SDK.
      • LEADTOOLS Medical Suite SDK.
    • Add Multimedia Technology
      • LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK.
  • Supported Platforms and Programming Interfaces
    • C Windows API - C/C++, Java.
    • .NET
      • C#, VB, C++/CLI, XAML.
      • WinForms, WPF, .NET, Xamarin, UWP.
    • Web Services - JSON, WebAPI, SOAP, RESTful.
    • iOS & macOS - Objective-C, Swift, Xamarin, .NET.
    • Android - Java, Xamarin.
    • Linux - Java & C/C++, .NET.
  • Support and Documentation
    • Source code for many demo projects to help jump-start your development.
    • Comprehensive documentation for every function, method, property, and event and various "How To Use" topics.
    • Free technical support.