LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce the release of a major update to the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Product lines. The headliner of this update is the Advantage OCR engine, which boasts a plethora of improvements which contribute to a significant increase in overall speed and accuracy.
Keep reading below to see a list of all the improvements in this update. You can also read the official press release.
What's new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine
OCR
- 82% speed boost to overall performance of Advantage OCR engine
- Faster page insertion
- Improved recognition accuracy
- Higher accuracy of font-size detection through improved noise removal
- Enhanced spell checker speed by 100%
- Optimized memory usage during AutoZone
- Table detection 50% faster
PDF
- Parse, edit and save modified PDF forms
- Read and write PDF Digital Signature
- Native memory support
- Memory enhancements when loading large PDF documents
- Optimized extraction of PDF file information including internal links, bookmarks, etc.
- Speed improvements to loading and saving SVG PDF documents
- Lower memory consumption when loading raster PDF
Document Viewer and Converter
- Faster SVG rendering
- Designer support for Leadtools.Controls.Winforms
- Load and save from SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Docs
- Native support for MOBI and ePUB format
- Shape and drawing support for DOC/DOCX
- Across-the-board improvements to Office, HTML, MOBI and ePUB formats
- HTML5 / JavaScript Document Viewer demo redesigned to use ASP.NET MVC
- Converted Document REST service to ASP.NET
- New .NET WinForms demo for viewing either Raster or SVG
Annotations
- Dashed line support for HTML5 / JavaScript
- Region / language support when loading and saving
- Improved custom annotation pictures
- Add padding to all sides of an object regardless of alignment
- Automatically rotate annotation images and text with viewer rotation
- Load annotations directly from PDF and TIFF files
- New legacy framework for loading and saving old versions of LEADTOOLS annotations
- Improved annotation realization (burning) for all platforms
Additional Document Updates
- New unstructured forms field recognition
- Recognize text fields with specific captions even when the filled form doesn't completely match its master form
- Load XLSX in WinRT
What's new in the LEADTOOLS Medical Engine
DICOM
- Updated to 2015c DICOM Specifications
- Native Model (XML and JSON) support
- Import and export XML format (PS3.19)
- Import and export to DICOM JSON model (PS3.18)
- Improved support for inserting large data
HTML5 Medical Viewer
- Restrict user access to records at the Patient level
- Improved sorting options and display
- Split series into multiple stacks
- Load all images without scrolling
- Improved memory usage and speed
- Pinch-zoom support
- Image Projection Orientation support
- Burn tags (overlays) onto image — All platforms
DICOM Storage Server
- Show live connections in server UI
- New cancel-forward and cancel-clean options
- AE Title Aliases
Medical Workstation
- Configuration options
- Pagination
- Export with Anonymization
- Encapsulated PDF support
What's new in the LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine
- Redesigned, fully customizable HTML5 Web Scanning Service
- Enhanced the TWAIN engine providing 64-bit apps access to 32-bit drivers
- Salt and Pepper noise removal image processing function
- Animated GIF support for HTML5 / JavaScript Viewer
- Resample color images in HTML5 / JavaScript Viewer
- Support for Pan Window in WPF Leadtools.Windows.Controls
- Recognize text fields with specific captions even when the filled form doesn't completely match its master form
DICOM
- Updated to 2015c DICOM Specifications
- Native Model (XML and JSON) support
- Import and export XML format (PS3.19)
- Import and export to DICOM JSON model (PS3.18)
- Improved support for inserting large data
HTML5 Medical Viewer
- Restrict user access to records at the Patient level
- Improved sorting options and display
- Split series into multiple stacks
- Load all images without scrolling
- Improved memory usage and speed
- Pinch-zoom support
- Image Projection Orientation support
- Burn tags (overlays) onto image — All platforms
DICOM Storage Server
- Show live connections in server UI
- New cancel-forward and cancel-clean options
- AE Title Aliases
Medical Workstation
- Configuration options
- Pagination
- Export with Anonymization
- Encapsulated PDF support
What's new in the LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine
- Redesigned, fully customizable HTML5 Web Scanning Service
- Enhanced the TWAIN engine providing 64-bit apps access to 32-bit drivers
- Salt and Pepper noise removal image processing function
- Animated GIF support for HTML5 / JavaScript Viewer
- Resample color images in HTML5 / JavaScript Viewer
- Support for Pan Window in WPF Leadtools.Windows.Controls
