LEADTOOLS Document Imaging includes API, C++ Class Libraries and .NET Class Libraries for Win32 and x64 with features that include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. Also features performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line and staple removal and scanning with TWAIN and WIA.
The Document Imaging range of products include:
Updates in v19 Major Update
OCR
- 82% speed boost to overall performance of Advantage OCR engine.
- Faster page insertion.
- Improved recognition accuracy.
- Higher accuracy of font-size detection through improved noise removal.
- Enhanced spell checker speed by 100%.
- Optimized memory usage during AutoZone.
- Table detection 50% faster.
PDF
- Parse, edit and save modified PDF forms.
- Read and write PDF Digital Signature.
- Native memory support.
- Memory enhancements when loading large PDF documents.
- Optimized extraction of PDF file information including internal links, bookmarks, etc.
- Speed improvements to loading and saving SVG PDF documents.
- Lower memory consumption when loading raster PDF.
Document Viewer and Converter
- Faster SVG rendering.
- Designer support for Leadtools.Controls.Winforms.
- Load and save from SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Docs.
- Native support for MOBI and ePUB format.
- Shape and drawing support for DOC/DOCX.
- Across-the-board improvements to Office, HTML, MOBI and ePUB formats.
- HTML5 / JavaScript Document Viewer demo redesigned to use ASP.NET MVC.
- Converted Document REST service to ASP.NET.
- New .NET WinForms demo for viewing either Raster or SVG.
Annotations
- Dashed line support for HTML5 / JavaScript.
- Region / language support when loading and saving.
- Improved custom annotation pictures.
- Add padding to all sides of an object regardless of alignment.
- Automatically rotate annotation images and text with viewer rotation.
- Load annotations directly from PDF and TIFF files.
- New legacy framework for loading and saving old versions of LEADTOOLS annotations.
- Improved annotation realization (burning) for all platforms.
Additional Document Updates
- New unstructured forms field recognition - Recognize text fields with specific captions even when the filled form doesn't completely match its master form.
- Load XLSX in WinRT.
About LEAD Technologies
LEAD Technologies is a privately held company founded in 1990 by Moe Daher and Rich Little. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LEAD was established to commercialize Mr. Daher's inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology. With a rich history of over twenty years, LEAD has established itself as the world's leading provider of digital imaging software development toolkits.
