Few things have as great an impact on document imaging as cleanup. Its benefits reach far beyond the the improved visuals and readability. Document image cleanup is the salt to the meatier document imaging technologies like OCR, barcode, PDF, forms recognition, archival, and the like—it enhances them.

• Accuracy - Images are rarely perfect. Colors, angles, imperfections in the original document all have an affect on the accuracy of recognition technologies. By correctly aligning the image and removing obstacles around the important areas, the recognition processes can scan the image and look for the predictable patterns that make up the text and data that you wish to extract.
• Compression

This post is part of our 2017 Developer App Series, which showcases apps created by our Support Agents over the course of eight weeks. These apps are intended to be larger, more thoughtful apps with highly practical purposes in mind, as opposed to a basic "how to" for a feature.

App Description

This project from Roberto will use the LEADTOOLS Image Processing Segmentation command and Auto Zoning capabilities to take in an image/file/document and automatically create a master template for use in forms recognition. The template will be created based on the AutoZone results and will also give the user the ability to "blank" out the master form by filling in the auto-zoned areas with white in order to help increase the recognition results, since using a blank form is desired.

Today, we uploaded a new setup with some fantastic new features and improvements to LEADTOOLS Version 19. With a heavy focus on Document and Medical technologies, some of these features are unprecedented for the commercial SDK marketplace. Also, some speed improvements are approaching the 10x faster mark! Here are some of the major updates to pique your interest:

• First Commercial DICOM Hanging Protocol SDK
• HTML5 Zero-footprint Medical Web Viewer - New Features and Enhancements
• DICOM Storage Server - New Features
• More Efficient Handling of DICOM Pixel Data
• Recognition SDK Technology - Enhancements to OCR, Forms & OMR, and New Composite Barcode Recognition
• Document Viewer - New Features and Enhancements
• Document Formats - Enhanced Support
• Credit Card Reader SDK - Supported on More Platforms

We told you this upcoming release was big, didn't we? Well today is the last post in our blog series introduction of the upcoming updates to LEADTOOLS V19 Document and Medical technologies. These updates will include a market-first DICOM Hanging Protocol implementation as well as the fastest Form Recognition and Processing engine in the world! Additionally, the upcoming update includes new features for the HTML5 Zero-footprint Medical Web Viewer, DICOM Storage Server, Recognition Engines, Document Viewer, Document Formats, Linux, and Credit Card Reader.

Here we'll focus on the new availability of the LEADTOOLS Credit Carder Reader SDK for .NET and C:

One-by-one we've been introducing some of the upcoming updates to LEADTOOLS V19 Document and Medical technologies. These updates will include a market-first DICOM Hanging Protocol implementation as well as the fastest Form Recognition and Processing engine in the world! Additionally, the upcoming update includes new features for the HTML5 Zero-footprint Medical Web Viewer, DICOM Storage Server, Recognition Engines, Document Viewer, Document Formats, Linux, and Credit Card Reader.

This post is about the new features coming to the various LEADTOOLS recognition engines: