Receiving a mix of both raster and searchable PDFs can be a pain, especially for those who get these files from clients daily. The LEADTOOLS OCR and PDF SDK makes it easy for developers to check if a file needs to have OCR ran or not.

As part of the LEAD Technologies 25th anniversary, we are creating 25 projects in 25 days to celebrate LEAD's depth of features and ease of use. Today's project comes from Hadi.

If you've been keeping track, this is actually our 25th project and the last one in our #LEAD25 series. But don't be sad, we post examples like these to our blog and forums on a regular basis so keep in touch! If you missed any of them, take a look back at our series introduction where we've kept a running list as each project was posted.

This past weekend, I was very fortunate compared to so many people that recently faced and are still having to deal with Hurricane Florence. At home, the power is out, but there is no major damage. I am fortunate. Since there is nothing I can do at the moment about the power and everyone around me is safe, I decided to forget my first-world problems, go to the office, which does have power, and write a small and simple app that solves some common first-world problems. I am hoping that you will find this tool useful, too!

One of the most important aspects of documents and record-keeping is the ability to redact sensitive information. Originally done permanently with blank ink on paper, the need for redaction certainly carried over into document imaging as processes and archives started going paperless. LEADTOOLS has many ways to redact documents, but today we're going to look at an example you might not have thought of before and would be right at home within any ECM or eDiscovery application.

This post is part of our 2017 Developer App Series, which showcases apps created by our Support Agents over the course of eight weeks. These apps are intended to be larger, more thoughtful apps with highly practical purposes in mind, as opposed to a basic "how to" for a feature.

App Description

This project from Hadi will showcase the LEADTOOLS OCR SDK as well as the LEADTOOLS Annotations SDK in a WinForms application alongside the built-in Windows Speech Synthesis namespace System.Speech.Synthesis to show how users can take in an image and have the computer read the text found on the image.