LEADTOOLS Version 19 is here! It is one of the most highly-anticipated and feature-packed releases ever. LEAD Technologies is once again raising the bar with unique and innovative imaging technologies, frameworks and solutions, and continues to prove why they are The World Leader in Imaging SDKs.

Since there are so many new features in this new release, we will highlight the new and improved technologies in each engine over the next few days. Today, we will be starting with the Document Imaging SDK Technology in LEADTOOLS, which is headlined by the new Document Viewer and Document Converter frameworks for .NET and HTML5/JavaScript.

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.

MICR detection and extraction technology is a very important piece of many applications in the banking, finance, legal, and insurance industries that can’t afford to rely on slow, error-prone manual data entry. The MICR line at the bottom of all checks consists of three separate numbers, which are the check number, account number, and bank routing number. The MICR font is made out of a magnetic ink that is intended to limit check fraud. The reason magnetic ink is used is because it allows computers to recognize the characters even if they have been covered by a signature, cancellation marks, or other types of marks.

Support recently received a request for a simple C# sample that would

• detect a MICR in an image
• and return the MICR code as a string.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and eDiscovery aren’t necessarily all that new, but it’s becoming increasingly important to implement due to the continuing transition into a digital age. Businesses, especially large corporations, have a massive amount of electronically stored information (ESI) that they would be wise to retain for future possible legal ramifications, so the stakes are high.