As we continue down the road from our recent LEADTOOLS Version 19 April Update, we are particularly excited about the enhancement we're going into more detail about today. As you might see from the title, our engineers were able to speed up the HTML5/JavaScript Medical Viewer.

No, this isn't one of those "it's faster" kind of announcements because we tested it on a new server or installed Google Fiber (technically, that's still under construction but we're kind of excited about that here in Charlotte, NC...back to my point!!!). This is a really big deal, and are talking about improvements of up to 5 - 12 times faster loading speeds! This update loads DICOM images over the web at nearly the same speed as a desktop application.

Last year, as part of our 25 projects in 25 days, we created a MeteorJS app to perform OCR using the LEADTOOLS web services.

When LEAD Technologies set out to create its HTML5 SDK, we wanted to do it right by making LEADTOOLS the fastest and most interactive toolkit available. Thanks to our many customers investing in and developing with this technology, we take that as a vote of confidence that we have succeeded in attaining that goal.

There are many ways to design a zero footprint application, and unfortunately the performance and quality often suffer due to many applications simply pushing all of the image processing to a server. With the LEADTOOLS JavaScript libraries, you can gain all the advantages of zero footprint development without losing the user-friendliness of an application that can provide instantaneous visual feedback.

The LEADTOOLS HTML5 / JavaScript interface was built with more than just web-based, cross-platform application development in mind. Did you know you can also create native and hybrid apps that can be published to mobile application stores for iOS, Android and Windows Phone? That is actually the case for almost any HTML5 application, but there are libraries and tools that help make that process easier.

One such tool is Intel XDK. In the same way that LEADTOOLS expedites and simplifies all of your imaging requirements such as display, annotations, OCR, barcode, DICOM, PACS and more, Intel XDK helps with the deployment and device integration aspect. Need access to the camera, local files and more? Want to write only one application and deploy it to multiple app stores? This is all possible with Intel XDK, and LEADTOOLS plugs into this innovative development environment without a hitch.

JavaScript frameworks. Love them, hate them, or die on a digital hill proclaiming the wonders of the newest and most cleverly named prefix to "JS," they all just boil down to something to help you build a web application. Thankfully, the LEADTOOLS HTML5/JavaScript Document Viewer can work with any of them, and we've had a recent wave of requests from customers wanting to integrate our viewer into the JavaScript framework they are using in their project.

Below are links to recent code tip posts from our support department, as well as links to the homepage to the respective framework: