Welcome to LEADTOOLS

by LEAD Technologies, Inc.

In 1990, LEAD Technologies began providing cutting-edge imaging technology to developers. Since then, LEADTOOLS toolkits have continued to be used by thousands of developers and organizations creating world-class solutions that are deployed on millions of devices around the globe. LEADTOOLS toolkits are the most comprehensive, robust, flexible, and powerful imaging SDKs available to developers that are involved in desktop, service, mobile, and web projects requiring still-frame, multimedia, document, medical, and vector imaging functionality.

LEADTOOLS toolkits support a variety of platforms, including .NET, C Windows API, WinRT, Linux, iOS, macOS, Android, and HTML5. LEADTOOLS also includes REST services for .NET and HTML5/JavaScript.

With LEADTOOLS toolkits, you have access to the most advanced imaging technology available and have the best technical support in the business on your team.  We look forward to working with you, and thank you for this opportunity to earn your business.

This help file, Getting Started with LEADTOOLS, is designed to provide developers with:

• Information about the LEADTOOLS DLLs, binaries, libraries, header files, import libraries, and classes used to support each LEADTOOLS feature

• Directions to find the documentation for each feature

• Directions to find sample program source code that uses each feature

• Links to sample program executables that demonstrate each feature

Key Features of LEADTOOLS

Imaging

• File Formats
• Image Processing 
• Viewers
• TWAIN, WIA, and Web Scanning
• Image Compression - Raster PDF
• Common Dialogs
• Screen Capture
• Barcode 1D and 2D 
• Printing
• HTML5 Image Viewer 
• Image Optimizer 
• Colorspace Conversion 
• AJAX 
• WPF 

Document (Includes all the features in Imaging)

• OCR / MICR / ICR / OMR
• Barcode 1D and 2D 
• PDF
• Document Viewer
• HTML5 Document Viewer
• Document Converter
• SVG
• Forms Recognition and Processing
• Document Cleanup
• Annotations
• HTML5 Annotations
• TWAIN / WIA / SANE, Fast TWAIN, Web Scanning
• Distributed Computing
• File Formats, Document Readers, Document Writers, Mixed Raster Content (mrc)
• Vector
• SharePoint Client
• Virtual Printer Driver
• JPIP
• Media Writer
• WCF Services
• Silverlight

Medical (Includes all the features in Document)

• DICOM
• DICOM PACS Messaging
• DICOM Security
• 3D
• Medical Image Viewer Control
• DICOMweb / WADO Services
• DICOM Annotations
• Medical Web Viewer Framework
• Silverlight
• CCOW
• HL7
• HTML5 DICOM Viewers
• Distributed Computing

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