LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce the release of LEADTOOLS ePrint 6! If you're a regular reader of this blog and/or a LEADTOOLS user, you may be asking yourself, "What is ePrint"? That is understandable if you are only familiar with our flagship imaging SDK product, LEADTOOLS. However, LEAD Technologies actually owns and operates several divisions and subsidiaries which utilize LEADTOOLS within their respective end-user products and utilities. Among those products, LEADTOOLS ePrint is one of the longest running and most successful software applications LEAD has published.

With that mini history lesson out of the way, here is what's new in LEADTOOLS ePrint. Version 6 builds upon and enhances its famous print-to-file conversion of over 150+ formats, Advanced PDF features, Task Printers, Workstation Application and more by upgrading ePrint to use the latest technology from LEADTOOLS Version 18. On top of the across-the-board improvements to ePrint's core functionality, it now comes with support for Optical Character Recognition through LEAD's internally developed Advantage OCR Engine

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LEAD will be exhibiting Microsoft Build for the third year in a row and we'd like to see you there. If you are a developer working on Microsoft platforms such as Azure, Windows, Visual Studio, and Xamarin, this is a show you don't want to miss. Our entire product line will be on display with a special focus on APIs and Development Tools for Microsoft platforms. If you would like to arrange a meeting with our staff, please send an email to MSBuild-2019@leadtools.com.

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LEAD will be exhibiting again this year at Microsoft Build and we want you to join us! We probably don’t need to tell you, but here are just a few reasons to attend:

• Learn from 300+ technical sessions and 80 interactive workshops on the Microsoft tools and platforms we rely on. Topics include: AI, machine learning, mixed reality, serverless, hybrid cloud, IoT, big data, advanced analytics, and more.
• Connect with experts and engineers to share insights and imagine innovative solutions.
• Explore exciting emerging tech to prepare our organization to solve today’s challenges and lead in digital transformation.
• Connect with the LEAD team and see LEADTOOLS Version 20 and the upcoming, brand new LEADTOOLS Azure Cloud Services in action!

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The conference is May 7–9 in Seattle, Washington, and a pass costs a whopping $2,495. BUT for one lucky LEADTOOLS subscriber we’re giving away a FREE conference pass. To enter:

We've released an update to LEADTOOLS Cloud Services that adds four new Web APIs, as well as stability, speed, and accuracy improvements. The new APIs are Document and Image Merging, AAMVA ID Recognition, Redaction, and Business Card Recognition. The new Redaction and Merge APIs work with both document and image formats. These Web APIs can be used in any programming environment that can make a web request, such as PHP, Python, and Perl, C#, and JavaScript, and are sure to enhance many desktop, mobile, and web applications.

LEADTOOLS latest release included the introduction of the Xamarin Camera Control. This control eliminates the need to write native iOS or Android camera code. Developers can now engineer the camera control into their Xamarin.Forms application with one line of code.

Our newest article on Code Project is a tutorial on how to extract data from barcodes from images that have been taken using the Xamarin Camera Control. This example is great for developers who have been using the native iOS/Android code to access the devices camera to recognize barcodes.