New Handwriting Recognition & Mixed Zone Recognition Libraries in LEADTOOLS Version 21

There is a great and growing need for people and organizations to be able to quickly recognize and extract data from documents, images, and forms that are filled with varying areas of machine printed text, handwriting, graphics, and more (think: almost every type of form you’ve had to fill out and sign). Handwritten text specifically has been historically difficult to recognize due to variations in each and every sample set of handwriting. With LEAD’s continued commitment to advancing OCR technology, our developers set out to create a solution. Version 21 brings a new and improved ICR engine as well as brand new Mixed Mode AutoZone capabilities.

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Improve UX and Workflows with the Document Analyzer SDK

The LEADTOOLS Document Analyzer is an innovative new library that intelligently finds and acts upon information in unstructured documents and images. The Document Analyzer handles what was once mundane and tedious manual work as it automatically sifts through data to find information of interest. Once a piece of information is found, an action such as highlight, redact, or extract can be applied. You will see below that the use cases of the Document Analyzer are widespread and varied, but all save time, reduce error, and improve the customer’s experience.

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Never Worry About Reading a Handwritten Document Again!

ICR, or Intelligent Character Recognition, is an advanced Artificial Intelligence technology that is usually quite difficult to master. Not for long! With the upcoming release of LEADTOOLS Version 21, our brand new, machine vision-powered ICR engine will make recognizing handwritten papers, forms, and documents seem easy.

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Get Ready for Version 21 PDF SDK: Reduced Memory, Faster Rendering, Better Quality & More!

If you haven’t heard yet, LEADTOOLS Version 21 is coming soon! It might just be your first time visiting our blog if this is news to you because we’ve certainly been spilling the beans in excitement and anticipation. Today, we’re going to tell you a little about what’s ahead for our PDF SDK. In version 21, we have completely changed the way we load and render PDF files to be faster and use less memory, while providing better visual quality. Additionally, LEADTOOLS Version 21 will now load and process PDF Portfolios as well as attachments in PDF files.

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LEAD Celebrates 30 Years with the Upcoming Release of LEADTOOLS Version 21

Everyone in the world is likely to agree that 2020 has been a unique year, to say the least. There has certainly been no shortage of historic events, both good and bad (and some quite ugly). That is why we are extremely pleased to add a couple more good events to the list. In fact, they are great! This month, LEAD celebrates 30 years and we will soon release Version 21 of LEADTOOLS.

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