Speed and accuracy are key when encoding and decoding the machine readable data found within barcodes. LEADTOOLS offers top-of-the-line computer vision barcode libraries that are faster and more reliable than any other barcode SDK on the market, ensuring that you always get the best possible results.

The LEADTOOLS ImageViewer is a cross-platform viewer that provides image display controls for desktop, web, tablet, and phone applications. Not only can this viewer display more than 150 different file formats, it also has a numerous amount of interactive modes that can be incorporated to your company's workflow. These modes provide an efficient and friendly user experience.

Once you get the ImageViewer up and running, there is so much more that you can do besides viewing images. You can add options to annotate and mark up images, OCR images, and improve the image quality of document images with the LEADTOOLS Document Cleanup Image processing functions. The LEADTOOLS ImageViewer library can be added to just about any workspace and help you out within minutes, so try it out!

PDFs are used virtually everywhere and by everyone these days. Throughout most organizations, PDF documents are vital to business applications and workflows. Many industries such as insurance agencies, financial institutions, and legal practices have standardized their document management systems on the PDF format due to the file format’s portability and versatility.

How these PDFs are being consumed depends on the type of PDF being dealt with. There are two main types of PDFs: image and searchable. For example, if you use a word processor to save the PDF, then that most likely will be a searchable PDF and you may copy/paste the text within the document as you please. On the other hand, if you use a scanner to convert paper to PDF, that most likely will be an image PDF and you will not be able to be able to search the text.

Even if you use a scanner to create an image PDF or were sent an image PDF by someone else, there still is a way to make it searchable. This happens through OCR and OCR is what LEADTOOLS does best! Developers are able to easily make automated OCR solutions and achieve these image to searchable PDF conversions with as little as five lines of code thanks to LEAD's powerful OCR libraries. These solutions are what save people and companies their two most valuable resources: time and money.

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.

LEADTOOLS will be presenting at the Solutions Showcase at AIIM this year. This will be the second year in a row that we have had the opportunity to present and demonstrate specific LEADTOOLS functionalities. With Version 21 on its way, we want to show off one of the newest additions to the SDK.

This showcase will focus on showing how to automatically redact values found by leveraging machine vision and key-value extraction. One goal we have with this feature is to show attendees how it can help transition offices to a paperless office and smooth out their day-to-day document needs. Powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms and the patented LEADTOOLS OCR Engine, this automatic redaction will work on all types of input documents, meaning there is no task this feature won’t be able to handle.