LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro SDK v.15 Includes 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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LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro SDK gives developers the tools to create powerful imaging applications. Become an imaging expert instantly using LEADTOOLS components. Why waste months coding when you can take advantage of LEAD's 17 years of imaging experience in a comprehensive SDK and cut your programming time in half?

Extend and simplify the .NET framework and GDI+ with LEADTOOLS. Get support for color conversion, display, compression (JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, CCITT G4 and LEAD's proprietary CMP), image processing, TWAIN scanning, color conversion, display, special effects, (2000+ effects), image format support ( 150+ image file formats ), printing, Internet/intranet imaging, database imaging, imaging common dialogs, screen capture and much more in a fully managed SDK which leverages LEAD’s 17 years of imaging toolkit technology.

Image Format Support

Load, save and convert 150+ image file formats and sub-formats using both industry standard and proprietary compressions. Additionally, with LEADTOOLS you can add even more format support with the LEADTOOLS PDF Plug-in. It adds support for loading, saving and converting PDF files.

Compression Support

Supports many of the industry standard compression techniques including JPEG, JPEG2000, CCITT, LZW (used in GIF and some TIFF files), ZIPLIB (used in PNG files), Huffman, Arithmetic, RLE and Packbits.

TWAIN Scanning Support

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

Display and Special Effects

Complete control of how the image is displayed including zooming, stretching, region of the image to display, and over 2000 paint effects. LEADTOOLS even includes a Pan Window; so, you can easily show an image overview and an alternative method of scrolling and panning to your end users.

Image Processing

Over 200 image processing functions divided into four basic categories: filters, transforms, color conversion, and drawing. Most image processing functions in LEADTOOLS support region of interest, allowing only a portion of an image to be processed. To add on even more functionality specific to digital painting, LEAD offers Digital Paint functionality in the Raster Imaging Pro that includes a variety of functions for digital painting including the creation and use of brushes, shapes, textures and more.

To ensure that you can convert images from one format to another or display images to any display device, LEADTOOLS includes powerful color conversion functionality. The color conversion functions include support for over 8 different dithering methods, many palette options and the ability to convert image data to any supported bits per pixel to any other support bits per pixel. Supported values are 1-8 bit color or grayscale, 16 bit color, 24 bit color and 32 bit color. If you need 12 or 16 bit grayscale or 48 and 64 bit color support, check out one of the Medical Imaging products.

Color Space Conversions

Images can be converted, separated to and reconstructed from individual RGB, CMYK, CMY, HSV, HSL, YUV, YIQ, CIELAB, XYZ, YCCK, Y41P, UYVY, YUY2, YVU9 abd YCC color planes using LEAD's built in conversion functions, ICC color profiles or Emulation Tables.

Printing Support

Printing is just as easy as displaying an image because can use the same code to print that you use to display an image. You control the size and location that the image should be printed. Additionally, Windows GDI functions can be used in conjunction with LEADTOOLS printing providing the flexibility to print text and multiple images on the same page.

Imaging Common Dialogs

LEADTOOLS Imaging Common Dialog boxes save hours of tedious programming and provide your end-users with a consistent look and feel by extending Windows common dialogs to provide imaging specific capabilities. The Common Dialogs provide professional imaging common dialogs for image processing, conversion and effects.

Screen Capture

Powerful screen capture functionality that can capture resources from files, menus, windows, clients, areas of screen in different shapes, etc. The screen capture tools are extremely useful, especially for documentation and provide another means of image input.

Database Support

Provides both high level and low level database support including the ability to bind to a VB data control, an OLEDB interface, an ODBC interface and low level functions to load and save images to memory.

Internet Support

Several different levels of Internet support including ASP.NET (AJAX) and Web Forms, objects that can be packaged into CAB files, objects that can be created on a web server, functions to load images from a URL or memory stream, controls for HTTP and FTP support, control to parse files uploaded to a web server and controls to create powerful client server applications that send remote procedure calls via TCP/IP.

Image Optimizer

LEADTOOLS provides functionality to optimize certain image file formats and reduces the size by saving images using the optimal bits per pixel, based on specific optimization options.

AJAX Web Forms

LEADTOOLS AJAX support, implemented in the LEADTOOLS Raster Tile Image Viewer, enables you to add fast, interactive image viewing into your ASP.NET 2.0 web applications. The ImageViewer is used to display any image file format supported by web browsers (JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP) and can automatically handle zooming and scrolling. Load all or part of a specific image file that uses any image file format supported by LEADTOOLS

Web Forms demos:

LEADTOOLS AJAX Web Forms Image Processing Demo

Digital Paint

A must for anyone who wants to add digital painting functionality to their application. With the LEADTOOLS Digital Paint feature, a developer can create an entire image editing or design application, or simply add pieces of those types of functionality into an existing application.

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 Raster Imaging Pro SDK

Pricing Structure
Product	Price	Try
LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging SDK Pro	$995	Free Trial
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.