About LEADTOOLS PDF Pro

Read, write, view and edit PDF files.

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro includes everything developers need to read, write, view (as raster) and edit PDF files with advanced capabilities such as the extraction of text, images, hyperlinks and metadata, updating, splitting and merging pages from existing PDF documents, converting to PDF/A as a real document, linearization, and reducing PDF document size with the LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer. By building upon the award-winning LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro features including viewer controls, image compression, image processing, TWAIN and WIA scanning, color conversion, 200+ display effects, 165+ image formats, printing, imaging common dialogs and screen capture, LEADTOOLS PDF Pro offers one of the best values on the market.

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro is the starting point for developing PDF applications within the LEADTOOLS product line. The LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging SDKs include the PDF Pro feature set and provide additional PDF functionality such as viewing PDF documents as vector with SVG, and converting PDF documents to Word and hundreds of other formats.

What's Included in the LEADTOOLS PDF Pro SDK?

PDF

  • Merge, Split, Convert, Linearize and Distill PDF files
  • Read and Extract text, 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
  • Compress image-based PDF files

Image Load, Save, Conversion and Compression

  • Load, save and convert more than 165 raster image formats including:
    • JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF -- Full list of LEADTOOLS formats
  • Compress and Decompress over 165 formats including:
    • JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XR, CCITT, CCITT G3 and CCITT G4, LZW, RLE and PackBits, ZIPLIB, Huffman, Arithmetic, LEAD CMP, LEAD CMW, LEAD ABC
  • Load, save and modify image metadata
  • High-level image compression optimizer to automatically optimize bit depth and compression settings
  • Imaging common dialogs

Image Processing

  • Over 200 image processing functions
  • Digital paint technology
  • Imaging common dialogs

Image Display

  • Image Viewers (Raster only)
  • Imaging common dialogs

Image Capture and Scanning

  • Acquire images and control TWAIN devices and scanners
  • Acquire images and control WIA devices and scanners
  • Capture images from the screen
  • Print images to Windows printers

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro Includes Technology From
All of the technology from the following products are included with LEADTOOLS PDF Pro:

  • LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro can be Upgraded to Add Specialized Imaging Technology
LEADTOOLS PDF Pro is the base SDK for other more advanced LEADTOOLS imaging products. These more advanced products include all of the imaging technology contained in the LEADTOOLS PDF Pro product and add additional advanced and specialized technology.

  • LEADTOOLS Pro Suite SDK

These products also include support for viewing and converting PDF documents as vector with SVG:

  • LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK
  • LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK
  • LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK
  • LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK
  • LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
  • LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite SDK
  • LEADTOOLS Multimedia Suite SDK

Platforms and Programming Interfaces

  • C Windows API - x86 & x64
    • C/C++
  • .NET
    • C#, VB, C++/CLI, XAML
    • WinForms, WPF, Web Forms
  • WinRT - x86, x64 & ARM
    • C#, VB, C++/CX, JavaScript
  • HTML5
    • JavaScript
  • Web Services
    • JSON, SOAP & RESTful
  • iOS & OS X
    • Objective-C, C/C++
  • Android
    • Java, C/C++
  • Linux
    • C/C++

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