Released: Aug 25, 2020
Updates in v21
Features
New in LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine
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Xamarin Camera
- Added control of preview size and frame rate.
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New Image Processing Functions
- Extract Object - Extracts connected groups of pixels from an image.
- Canny Edge Detector.
- Forms Field Detector.
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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, UTF8, UTF16LE, UTF16BE encoded text files.
- Added support to load CGM files saved with text encoding.
- Added support to render Medium Map Overlay for AFP (MODCA) documents.
Additional Changes
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New powerful Xamarin demos that show more features of LEADTOOLS in a Xamarin development environment. These new demos are designed to look like end-user applications, but the source code for them is included so that anyone can get a head start. Below are some of the new demos included in version 21:
- Annotations Demo.
- Barcode Demo.
- Business Card Reader Demo.
- Camera Demo.
- Converter Demo.
- DICOM Demo.
- Document Viewer Demo.
- Image Processing Demo.
- Live Filter Demo.
- MICR Demo.
- OCR Demo.
- Maven repository for Android.
Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line in Version 21
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The following products have been renamed:
- LEADTOOLS Document Imaging to LEADTOOLS Document.
- LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging to LEADTOOLS Recognition.
- LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite to LEADTOOLS Document Suite.
- LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging to LEADTOOLS Medical.
- LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite to LEADTOOLS Medical Suite.
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The following products have been added.
- LEADTOOLS Forms - includes all features of the LEADTOOLS Recognition product, including ICR, MICR, MRZ, and OMR, plus forms recognition and processing.
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The following products have been removed.
- LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging - functionality moved into the LEADTOOLS Medical product.
- LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Module - functionality moved into the LEADTOOLS Medical product.
- LEADTOOLS Dental Display Module.
- The LEADTOOLS Document Suite and the Medical family of products include all features of LEADTOOLS Multimedia.