For July, we have published a white paper on using the LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Driver to extend existing applications. The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Driver is one of the solutions LEADTOOLS provides to help developers streamline business processes and reduce human error. Additionally, the Virtual Printer Driver enables developers to connect legacy applications to new systems that reside either on location or in the cloud, even when the existing application does not include an API.

Extend Existing Applications with the LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK

A common problem that faces many developers is extending existing applications when changing the underlying source code is not a possibility. As needs and systems change, there has to be a mechanism to add new functionality and maintain efficient workflows for end-users. The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK is one of several solutions LEADTOOLS provides to overcome this problem.

A Visual Studio console application project written in C# to implement a task printer based on the LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer is also available for download: LEADTOOLS V19 Virtual Printer Driver Sample

Lately we've had some customers inquire about using LEADTOOLS Multimedia 18 with the Cloud SDK. This is a perfect choice since the conversion of audio/video files is what originally sparked the creation of our Cloud SDK. LEADTOOLS Multimedia V18 gives distributed processing application developers the most flexibility, features and performance with the latest codecs, processing filters, and the option to use either DirectShow or Media Foundation. This combination sets up LEADTOOLS as the unrivaled choice for parallel processing of multimedia conversion tasks.

In case you're new to the LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK, its greatest asset is the freedom it gives developers. While we include demos for OCR and Multimedia since those are the most popular kinds of distributed applications among our customers, the Cloud SDK is actually a completely independent framework. You don't have to use LEADTOOLS Multimedia, OCR, Image Processing, or really any LEADTOOLS imaging feature. LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK simply makes it easy to divide any job amongst an unlimited number of networked computers and get your job done faster and less expensively.

The LEADTOOLS Document Analyzer SDK is one of the many new features that was introduced in version 21 of LEADTOOLS. These libraries easily and efficiently search, find, hide, highlight, and extract information from images (JPG, TIFF, PNG, PDF), PDFs, and documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLX). Structured data or not, the Document Analyzer will find and process all of the information you specify.

Being an important part of many document and imaging workflows, LEADTOOLS Annotations SDK provides an interface to mark up images with various shapes, notes, highlights, rulers, and redactions with options to either permanently alter the image or store information to undo and alter the annotations.

With a global focus on optimizing paperless office systems, virtual printing solutions have never been in higher demand. A Virtual Printer is a simulated device that simulates a physical printer but instead of printing on paper, it gives access to the file in memory and processes the pages so that users can save it to file or transmit it via other means such as email or to a database. Using the LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK, developers can create virtual printer solutions to host locally or on a networked server to allow multiple users to access it. With LEADTOOLS support for over 150 file formats, users can save these virtual print jobs to just about any format.