We are happy to announce that LEADTOOLS has once again received the following ComponentSource Awards for 2022:

• Top 25 Publisher Award for LEAD Technologies
• Top 50 Product Award for LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK
• Top 100 Product Award for LEADTOOLS Document SDK
• Top 100 Product Award for LEADTOOLS PDF Pro SDK

These awards come from the volume of sales through ComponentSource and are a reflection of how popular LEADTOOLS is outside of North America.

While we can talk all day about how great LEADTOOLS is, it's always meaningful to hear a review from an outside developer. Today, we're sharing with you a review of our LEADTOOLS OCR Module - LEAD Engine written by Jeffrey T. Fritz

I live in an older house that loves to bother me with the joys of home ownership and maintenance. Plumbing issues, strange electrical installation choices, and a 30-year-old furnace that burns oil. At first, the oil burner wasn’t a big deal because this meant I wasn’t paying for an electric heater. However, it did mean that my basement had a huge oil tank hiding in it that would need to be refilled on a regular basis during the cold winters. That shouldn’t be a problem... but I would never know the level of the oil in the tank unless I wandered down to the basement on a regular basis and checked the level by reading an old gauge mounted on the top of the tank.

As a technologist, this daily task of reading the oil tank gauge became tiresome and I had no way to know how quickly I was burning oil. What is the correlation between average daily temperature and the amount of oil my furnace burns? I wanted to solve the problem and started with a pad of paper and wrote down the daily readings. BORING! Who wants to read hard copy? I want this data on my phone, and I want to be collected without my daily trip to the basement to read the meter.

PDF files are ubiquitous in the world of business. They are used to store documents, images, and other data. In the past, people have asked if there is an easy way to extract graphics such as a chart or photo from a PDF file. If you're looking to get all of the images from a PDF file or have hundreds or more PDF files to process, then the answer is to use LEADTOOLS.

It is common to ask other departments for feedback on content to make sure you get mulitple perspectives on the topic. I cannot count the number of times I have sent a document to another department only to get it back with Tracking Changes disabled. 😡 When that happens, you can either manually check each and every word for a change like a caveman, or you can use a tool to show the differences. Fortunately, I have LEADTOOLS and PowerShell in my arsenal of tools.

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 Faris.

What it Does

This C# console application will scan a page, extract text with OCR and save to PDF using LEADTOOLS Version 19.