The LEADTOOLS SDK leads the industry in Optical Character Recognition (OCR). With as few as three lines of code, programmers can develop robust, scalable, and high-performance recognition and document processing applications that extract text from scanned documents and convert images to text-searchable documents.

"As a long-time customer of LEADTOOLS, we’ve been using LEAD’s OCR engine to extract information from incoming faxes to be stored in our database. LEAD’s OCR technology has allowed us to improve our internal workflow and organization of our records."

David Revell, CIO of Radia Inc.

The countdown is on! The Microsoft Build virtual event will be held next week, May 25-27th. We look forward to hearing the latest in developer tools and techniques that Microsoft is sure to announce! Since we had such a great time last year recapping the event with @CSharpFritz, we’re doing it again! Join us on May 28th for a Build Wrap Up Show. During the show, we will recap all of the highlights from Microsoft Build, hear the latest and greatest from various Microsoft speakers, and - of course - you can enter to win awesome prizes!

Automate your data entry problems away with a state-of-the-art forms processing API. Whether you're working with customer surveys, tax documents, or billing records every industry uses forms daily to conduct business. Moving data from a paper to a digital medium can be a time consuming hassle. That's why LEADTOOLS has developed exclusive capabilities that extract text from images containing any combination of machine-printed text, handwritten text, MICR, MRZ, and OMR fields. LEADTOOLS will automatically detect and recognize everything! Below are the main steps to quickly and accurately process various form types regardless of how the data is formatted.

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.

There is a great and growing need for people and organizations to be able to quickly recognize and extract data from documents, images, and forms that are filled with varying areas of machine printed text, handwriting, graphics, and more (think: almost every type of form you’ve had to fill out and sign). Handwritten text specifically has been historically difficult to recognize due to variations in each and every sample set of handwriting. With LEAD’s continued commitment to advancing OCR technology, our developers set out to create a solution. Version 21 brings a new and improved ICR engine as well as brand new Mixed Mode AutoZone capabilities.