LEADTOOLS provides state of the art Optical Character Recognition, Intelligent Character Recognition, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and Optical Mark SDK technology that is fast and highly accurate for C/C++, C#, VB.NET and Web developers. Leverage LEADTOOLS' high level toolkit to rapidly develop robust, scalable and high-performance recognition and document processing applications which extract text from scanned documents, convert images to text-searchable formats such as PDF, PDF/A, XPS, Microsoft Word and more. With LEADTOOLS' extensive support for over thirty character sets, programmers can expand their customer base by providing the same solution for many languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and more.

LEADTOOLS is a premier toolkit for developing applications that require reading and writing 1D Linear and 2D barcodes in images, supporting over 100 types and sub-types such as UPC, EAN, Code 128, 2 of 5, GS1 DataBar, QR Code, Data Matrix, PDF417, MicroPDF417, Aztec and more. Featuring a fast, highly accurate and reliable barcode engine for .NET (C# & VB), C/C++, WinRT, iOS, OS X, Java and Web developers, LEADTOOLS' award-winning libraries help programmers create amazing, fully-featured barcode applications in record time.

LEADTOOLS toolkits include comprehensive PDF reading, writing and viewing technology with advanced capabilities such as the extraction of text, images, hyperlinks and metadata, editing and updating bookmarks and annotations, 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. Tested against thousands of PDF documents, the LEADTOOLS PDF SDK provides impeccable accuracy which tops many market-leading PDF reading applications. LEADTOOLS accounts for common errors and differences between PDF file versions to give programmers peace of mind, minimize their testing phase and create the best PDF applications on the market.