It's quite the celebration with our Major LEADTOOLS V19 Release announcing new Document and Medical Features with Visual Studio 2017 compatibility. Additionally, Visual Studio is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a launch of VS2017! To honor these special events starting March 7th and for a limited time, we’re offering 15% off any LEADTOLS SDK. If interested, be sure to contact sales@leadtools.com!

Also remember to tune in as we will be hosting a live stream of the Visual Studio 2017 launch right here on the LEADTOOLS Blog on March 7th at 11AM EST/8AM PST.

Today, we uploaded a new setup with some fantastic new features and improvements to LEADTOOLS Version 19. With a heavy focus on Document and Medical technologies, some of these features are unprecedented for the commercial SDK marketplace. Also, some speed improvements are approaching the 10x faster mark! Here are some of the major updates to pique your interest:

• First Commercial DICOM Hanging Protocol SDK
• HTML5 Zero-footprint Medical Web Viewer - New Features and Enhancements
• DICOM Storage Server - New Features
• More Efficient Handling of DICOM Pixel Data
• Recognition SDK Technology - Enhancements to OCR, Forms & OMR, and New Composite Barcode Recognition
• Document Viewer - New Features and Enhancements
• Document Formats - Enhanced Support
• Credit Card Reader SDK - Supported on More Platforms

The LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK for iOS, macOS, and Android had a significant update recently! Across the board, the OCR engine has been made 3-6x faster and the demo UI was given a significant redesign. In addition, each platform has its own set of platform-specific updates.

Android

• Barcode demo code was rewritten, resulting in a much faster implementation
• Added support for android.hardware.camera2, which means live capture support for all modern devices

Apple

• ALL libraries are now dynamic
• Updated interface for better Swift compatibility

If you want to try the latest version, you can download from here. Additionally, we have various sample applications on the App Store and Google Play available as well.

We are almost done with our blog series introduction of the upcoming updates to LEADTOOLS V19 Document and Medical technologies. These updates will include a market-first DICOM Hanging Protocol implementation as well as the fastest Form Recognition and Processing engine in the world! Additionally, the upcoming update includes new features for the HTML5 Zero-footprint Medical Web Viewer, DICOM Storage Server, Recognition Engines, Document Viewer, Document Formats, Linux, and Credit Card Reader.

Today's post is about the new features coming to the LEADTOOLS imaging SDK for Linux development: