LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK v.15Includes Imaging APIs, C++ Class Libraries, .NET Class Libraries and COM for Win32 and x64. ActiveX, VCL and .NET 1.1 are also available, Click here.

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Develop powerful document imaging applications with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK. Features include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), and specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. Other features include performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line removal and scanning with Fast TWAIN.

Now includes JBIG2, ABIC, JPEG2000 and LEAD CMW.

Key Features

• Annotations
• .NET Programming Interface
• Display, Memory and Processing Optimizations (Bitonal Scaling)
• Specialized Storage and Compression
• Image Acquisition - TWAIN
• Document Cleanup (Image Enhancement Functionality)
• General Imaging Features
• WPF

Annotations

Powerful annotation capabilities which enable the addition of text, highlights, sticky notes, audio, ellipses, circles, squares, buttons, lines, arrows, rectangles, polygons, redaction (blackout), hotspots, freehand scribble, pointers, images, stamps, rulers and hyperlinks all with multilayer security features, to document, color and grayscale images. Annotation functionality is included with both the Document Imaging and Medical Imaging toolkits.

Display, Memory and Processing Optimizations

All of the display functionality in the Raster Imaging products, plus specialized display options called bitonal scaling for greatly increasing the quality and readability of black and white images on the screen are included in the Document Imaging toolkits.

Zoom View LEADTOOLS provides a "zoomed view" feature that can be attached to a window handle. The Zoom View gives you the ability to "zoom in" on the image loaded into the window to which it is attached.

Faster loading and viewing speeds and reduced requirements for end-users are a result of the Document Imaging products capacity to keep images compressed in memory. Additionally, advanced algorithms, such as the FastRotate function, take full advantage of these memory optimizations to make the process instantaneous.

Image Acquisition - TWAIN Capture

TWAIN drivers are standard with almost all scanner and other image acquisition hardware. Also, with recent advancements, LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN is the technology of choice for performance and reliability. LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products currently support all functionality included in the TWAIN v1.9 specification.

Document Cleanup

When scanning or faxing, the result is frequently a degraded version of the original document. This makes it difficult to read, introduces errors when performing OCR, and increases the storage requirement of the image. Within the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging and Medical Imaging toolkits, the document cleanup family of functions can process images to prepare them for OCR, storage, or improve them for better readability. These functions include:

• Hole punch detection and removal
• Border detection and removal
• Noise detection and removal
• Bump detection and removal
• Inverted text detection and removal
• Line detection and removal
• Despeckle
• Deskew
• Deskew Check
• Blank Page Detect
• Dilation
• Erosion
• Auto Crop

Specialized Storage and Compression

• Mixed Raster Content (MRC) uses a technique of dividing images into image and text components and then uses a compression suited for that type of image to get the best compression and quality possible.
• JBIG is a bitonal image compression that uses several advanced techniques to compress bitonal images with no loss and consistently maintains much better compression ratios as compared to CCITT compression techniques.
• JBIG2 is superior to LZW, TIFF Group 4 and other 1 bit compression.
• ABIC is a compression format for compressing check images.
• CMW is an advanced compression that is better than JPEG2000 in quality, speed and compression ratios. LEADTOOLS CMW includes support for multiple resolutions. This makes your applications faster and more memory efficient because the entire file does not have to be loaded and decompressed just to load a low resolution image.

Barcode

Barcodes have been used in document imaging for years to help identify the document, information about the document or for many other possible reasons. Because barcodes are so useful in document imaging applications, LEAD has made available for purchase several barcode add-on options to meet your specific application needs.

General Imaging Features

Making the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging product line the most diverse and robust document imaging product available, LEAD has also included general (bitonal, grayscale and color) imaging features including Image Processing (Transforms, Filters, Drawing, Region of Interest), Color Conversion, Display, Special Effects (choose from more than 2000 effects), Compression, Image Format (import/export), Printing, Internet/intranet imaging (Web Forms), Database imaging, Imaging Common Dialogs and Screen Capture.

WPF Support

LEADTOOLS provides interoperation support between LEADTOOLS and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) images. Developers can harness the robust power of LEADTOOLS extensive file format support and image processing features, while taking advantage of the newest UI development features provided by WPF. LEADTOOLS includes WPF source code examples making the integration of many years of LEADTOOLS imaging expertise into the latest Microsoft WPF technology a simple task.

Unicode and ANSI Support
Visit the LEADTOOLS Unicode support page for more information.

Programming Interfaces

Included programming interfaces: A low level API, C++ Class Library, COM objects and .NET Class Libraries. LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro, Document and Medical Imaging products ship with sample source code for C/C++, Visual C++ (MFC), VB, C# and VB.NET. Supported OS: Windows 98/2000/Me/Xp/Vista

With the purchase of LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro, Document and Medical Imaging v.15, programmers are eligible to receive the following additional programming interfaces ActiveX, VCL, and .NET 1.1 (in versions 14.5) by requesting it at the time of purchase. LEAD continues to support and maintain v.14.5 of the ActiveX, VCL and .NET 1.1 interfaces.

Each of the following products include the Document Imaging SDK

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK	†$2495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite	†$3995		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK	†$4495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite	†$7995		Free Trial

†Marked toolkits require runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative.