PACS Storage Server – The LEADTOOLS Way

There are many factors to consider when developing a PACS solution. You must think about how to support all the various flavors of DICOM Data Sets, implementing DICOM communication and security, designing the UI and database, and let’s not forget … Continue reading

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Distributed Transcoding

A while back, we had a customer that wanted to transcode video files into several different formats as quickly as possible. In this particular case, he had access to as much computing power as one could imagine. Even with his … Continue reading

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Birth of the Cloud

As with any software development company, LEAD has several test machines in various departments which we use to run lengthy stability tests, set up specific operating systems or environments, and pretty much anything else you wouldn’t want to use your … Continue reading

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Working With PDFs

PDF is one of the most popular formats for exchanging and archiving documents. It supports various forms of security, metadata, and the ability to store all of the necessary display information such as fonts, vector and images. In short, PDF … Continue reading

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OCR Simplified

On the outside, OCR (or Optical Character Recognition) is a pretty straight forward concept. You take an image (scanned document in most cases), and convert it into a searchable or editable format such as PDF, Word or Text. On the … Continue reading

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