New in the LEADTOOLS Medical Engine
- Medical Web Viewer
- Temporary access to images granted by sharing URL.
- Added HL7 messaging to Medical Web Viewer and patient updater.
- Added Okta authentication.
- Medical 3D
- Cut plane-reference line enhancements.
- Render speed optimizations.
- PACS Framework
- Storage Server
- AmazonS3 Cloud Storage dataset support.
- New DICOM Import Add-in.
- New Export Layout Add-in.
- New patient ID access feature.
- Gateway Add-in
- Added DICOM TLS security.
- Added C-GET.
- Patient Updater Add-in
- Added DICOM TLS security.
- Forwarder Add-in
- Added DICOM TLS security.
- Added support for multiple forwarding jobs.
- HL7 Patient Updater Add-in
- Added DICOM TLS security.
- Annotation Updates
- Simultaneous multiple custom units for ruler object.
- New text object drawing behavior.
- DICOM Annotations
- New high-level functions to convert between LEAD and DICOM annotation objects.
New in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Engine
- Multimedia SDK Updates
- Faster ISO format capture and conversion.
- New live audio processor to detect and fill dropped audio samples.
- Updates to Streaming SDK
- MPEG-2 transport error detection option added to the LEAD MPEG-2 Transport Multiplexer.
- Streaming server can use MPEG-2 Transport files for all protocols.
- Streaming server can use DICOM files as source files.
- Updates to Media Foundation Components
- New Media Foundation target formats:
- 3GP: Video (H264) - Audio (AAC and AMRNB).
- MP3.
- MPEG-2: Video (H264, HEVC) - Audio (AAC, AAC-ADTS, AC3, MP3, and MPEG-2 Audio).
- WAVE: Audio only (MP3, PCM, and FLOAT).
- FLAC.
- FMPEG4: Video (H264) - Audio (AAC, AC3, and ALAC).
- AVI: Video (Uncompressed video colors, M-JPEG) - Audio (PCM).
- MPEG-2 Transport: Video (H264 and HEVC) - Audio (AAC, AAC-ADTS, AC3, MP3, and MPEG-2 Audio).
- ADTS: Audio (AAC and AAC-ADTS).
- AC-3: Audio (Dolby AC-3 Audio).
- Update Media Foundation targets with new audio and video formats
- MP4: Added audio formats (AC3, ALAC, and FLAC).
- MKV: Added new video formats (VP8 and VP9) and new audio format (OPUS).
- Added support for .webm format to LEAD MKV media source.
- Added support to select between available hardware and software encoders.
- Added new decoders, encoders and target format:
- LEAD MCMW Decoder.
- LEAD MJ2K Decoder.
- LEAD MCMP Decoder.
- LEAD MJPEG Decoder.
- LEAD MJPEG Encoder.
- AVI Target format.
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, 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.