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.

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.

With AWS Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. All you have to do is upload your code, and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale the code. You can set up triggers from other Amazon web services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

A majority of LEADTOOLS features can be easily added to AWS Lambda. Features such as Text Recognition, Document Converting, Barcode Recognition, Image Processing, and many more are perfect fits for AWS Lambda.

No matter what task you may come across, imaging projects will always have a requirement to load image files. Images can come in all different containers, compressions, sizes, bits per pixels, and resolutions. Having to worry about supporting all these different things can become a nightmare for a developer. Thankfully, with the LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK, you don’t have to worry about any of this. Simply call a single function and the image can be loaded quickly and efficiently.

Processing forms and invoices are a large part of many companies day-to-day workflow. When a copy of a form is filled out by a person and scanned back into the company, that information then needs to be extracted. Many OCR engines struggle to extract this information since the form could have been scanned in at a lower resolution than the original, could have noise introduced by the scanner, or the fields may be unstructured and dynamically generated. Thankfully, the LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition SDK takes care of all of that and eliminates the need for any additional manual processing. Powered by LEAD’s patented machine learning algorithms, these advanced forms recognition and OCR libraries handle both structured and unstructured forms and can help save companies valuable time and money.