We absolutely love hearing from our customers regarding our products. In fact, one of the primary ways LEADTOOLS grows is through the direct feedback, suggestions and feature requests from our customers both with shipping products as well as those mulling through ideas during their evaluation. Today we'd like to introduce Carey Payette, an experienced programmer, mom of 3, black belt and conference speaker. She also writes for Code Project from time to time, which is why she is a part of our blog today.

She recently took LEADTOOLS for a spin and wrote about her experience with our Document Viewer and Document Converter technologies. Her article starts from scratch and shows how little effort it takes to view a raster image with searchable text in the Document Viewer. Then uses the Document Converter to convert the picture into a Microsoft Word DOCX file for editing.

LEAD Technologies will be in Las Vegas for the 2016 HIMSS Conference from February 29th through March 4th.

Now we want to tell you how you can WIN BIG just by stopping by. Each day from Tuesday March 1st until Thursday March 3rd, LEAD will be giving away $500 worth of Bellagio Casino chips to one lucky winner per day. Which means if you’re really lucky, you could win $1500 from us. All you have to do is head over to Booth #5259 during the expo hours to enter! We’ll have the drawing times posted on-site.

ComponentSource has been our global distributor since 1995. Starting in 2006, ComponentSource started awarding top publishers and software based on sales for the year. LEAD and LEADTOOLS have received an award every year since.

There are two sets of awards: ComponentSource Bestselling Product Awards for 2014-2015 and ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher Awards for 2014-2015. The allocation of the awards was calculated based on ComponentSource global sales orders during 2014.

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.

In July, we started celebrating LEAD's 25th anniversary with a brief history lesson, some promos and a series of fun fact tweets.

This month, we're starting another celebration from the programmer's point of view. For the next 25 days, our Support Engineers will be creating a new project from scratch and showing how easy it is to use LEADTOOLS to accomplish their goal. These examples will explore the many features within LEADTOOLS: OCR, barcode, PDF, forms recognition and processing, document viewing and converting, virtual printing, annotations, DICOM, PACS, image processing, formats, multimedia, HTML5, mobile platforms, and more.