LEADTOOLS
LEAD Technologies is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the award-winning line of development toolkits. LEADTOOLS is a family of comprehensive toolkits designed to help programmers integrate raster, document, medical, multimedia, and vector imaging into their desktop, server, tablet, and mobile applications. LEADTOOLS gives developers the most flexible and powerful imaging technology, offering development support for OCR, Barcode, Forms Recognition, PDF, Document Conversion and Viewing, Document Cleanup, Annotations, DICOM, PACS, HL7, Audio/Video Codecs, MPEG-2 Transport, DVR, Streaming, File Formats (150+), Image Compression, Image Processing, Color Conversion, Viewers, Special Effects, Scanning/Capture, Common Dialogs, Printing, and more. A LEADTOOLS toolkit literally puts millions of lines of code at the fingertips of application developers. Whatever your programming needs, LEAD has a toolkit specifically designed to give you the best imaging technology available.
Chant
Chant is a leading provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage using speech technology. The company helps organizations identify and implement the most attractive opportunities appropriate for their company and industry. As the first company to provide engine-independent component software for developing desktop, web-enabled, and telephony applications that use speech technology, Chant can help you implement applications that allow you to talk with your computer. Chant was founded on the belief that computers can do more and be easier to use at the same time by taking advantage of speech technology. The company is focused on providing solutions that enable you to do more with your computer by talking with it.
PowerBASIC
The history of PowerBASIC compilers goes back over 25 years. That's when Bob Zale, PowerBASIC's founder, created BASIC/Z, the first interactive compiler for CP/M and MDOS. It was extended to MS-DOS, and in 1987 Borland published it as the now legendary Turbo BASIC. The compiler became officially known as PowerBASIC in 1990 when Bob Zale founded PowerBASIC Inc.