LEADTOOLS Pro Suite Releases

Released: Jul 17, 2023

Updates in LEADTOOLS Pro Suite

Features

  • Added full support for Python.

Released: Dec 14, 2022

Updates in LEADTOOLS Pro Suite

Features

  • Added support for Microsoft .NET 6 and 7.
  • Several performance improvements have been made to the core technologies.

Released: Sep 23, 2021

Updates in v22

Features

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine v22

PDF SDK Updates

  • Enhanced font embedding techniques, which result in better conversion to PDF/A files.
  • Expanded PDF digital signature support to Java for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS, Apple iOS, and Android.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine v22

Updates to Formats

  • Load and save HEIC/HEIF images.

Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line
In Version 22, the following products have been added.

  • LEADTOOLS Edit - includes all...

Released: Aug 25, 2020

Updates in v21

Features

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, UTF...

Released: Mar 13, 2019

Updates in V20 (March 2019 release)

Features

  • Document SDK
    • Expanded Document Formats in Linux and MacOS
      LEAD has expanded its support of Microsoft Office formats with Linux and MacOS native libraries. Also, LEADTOOLS is now leveraging the WebKit browser engine to handle HTML files on Linux and MacOS systems to ensure the resulting output is exactly what the user expects.
  • Xamarin
    • Xamarin Camera Control
      Developers writing cross-platform mobile applications now have the LEADTOOLS Xamarin Camera Control in their arsenal. This Xamarin...

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

Additional Toolkit Enhancements

  • Dramatically improved Barcode accuracy and increased speed by up to 10x
  • Added new Barcode pre-processing options to increase accuracy when recognizing...

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 Imaging Engine:

  • New Image Processing Functions.
    • Wiener Filter.
    • Edge Enhancement.
  • Additional updates to the Imaging Engine
    • Background color detection in document...

Released: Mar 28, 2017

Updates in v19 (March 2017 Release)

Features

  • Fully compatible with Visual Studio 2017
  • Enhanced the performance of Barcode engine.
  • Added support in the Barcode engine to find and decode GS1 Composite symbols, including CC-A, CC-B, and CC-C.

Released: Jun 23, 2016

Updates in v19

Updates in v19

LEAD Technologies Releases LEADTOOLS Version 19 for OS X, iOS, and Android.

Upgraded OCR, Barcode, and Document Writers
Developers gain access to vastly upgraded OCR and Barcode technologies. Additionally, the Document Writers, which are used by the OCR engine to save document formats, have been updated to bolster format support, including the addition of PDF and DOCX formats. Using Version 19 OCR as a foundation, LEADTOOLS mobile developers now have access to LEADTOOLS Driver's...