LEAD Technologies released several updates to the LEADTOOLS Multimedia family of products. Programmers use LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDKs for the development of audio/video applications across a wide variety of industries including defense, broadcast and security. With LEADTOOLS, developers can complete complex DirectShow and Media Foundation tasks with fewer lines of code.

Keep reading below to see a list of all the improvements in this update. You can also read the official press release.

LEADTOOLS received several updates to its document and medical imaging toolkits today. Most notably, the LEADTOOLS HTML5/JavaScript Document Viewer now has the ability to run within even the most restricted environments without compromising security. Several under-the-hood updates including logging, diskless caching, configuration settings, and the like all contribute to create a lightweight, web-based viewer that can be hosted on both Windows and Linux servers, as well as third-party cloud hosting services such as Microsoft Azure.

We are proud to announce that LEAD Technologies has won an SD Times 100 award within the APIs, Libraries & Frameworks category in recognition of its flagship SDK product line, LEADTOOLS. This year marks the 7th year in a row LEAD has been recognized by SD Times as a standout company and it is an honor to be acknowledged alongside this prestigious group. While there are plenty of new players who have made waves in the industry and are represented on the SD Times 100 list, it is a testament to the years of experience and hard work of our team that we have kept at the forefront of development innovation year in and year out.

Yesterday, we introduced LEADTOOLS Version 20 and its new development platforms to you. Today we're diving into the features.

Overall, the toolkit is faster and more efficient, and major areas of focus in this release were the Recognition Engines, Document Viewer, Document Formats, Medical Web Viewer, and Hanging Protocols.

We're headed to San Antonio next month for the AIIM Conference. We look forward to sharing ideas on Intelligent Information Management (IIM) with over 600 participants from around the world. Below are the show details, hope to see you there!

AIIM Conference

April 11-13, 2018
Grand Hyatt Riverwalk
San Antonio, TX

With LEADTOOLS Version 20 out, we’ve got a lot to share with AIIM attendees including numerous additions and many impressive speed and accuracy enhancements to our Document engine that will save developers significant time and money in the scanning, capture, and digitization processes. In addition, we'll be showcasing our soon-to-be-released LEADTOOLS Cloud Services. You won't want to miss it!