Do you develop mobile apps for iOS or Android? If so, read up because this is pretty exciting stuff. Even if you aren't currently a mobile app developer, chances are you've thought about it and this might pique your interest even more. LEADTOOLS 19 has been released for Android, iOS, and OS X development platforms!

Below is a summary of the big stuff included in this release. We'll go into more details on some of the features in the coming weeks, such as the improvements we made to the OCR and Barcode engines.

Today, we published a new video that highlights some of the LEADTOOLS OCR SDK features that set it apart from the competition. Thousands of developers rely on the LEADTOOLS OCR SDK to create enterprise-level OCR, forms processing, MICR, and OMR solutions. Watch the LEADTOOLS OCR SDK features video to see why.

We hope you enjoy the video. If there are any specific LEADTOOLS features you want to see highlighted on our YouTube channel, please let us know!

Last week we touched briefly on the new Java libraries in our post about the latest Document Imaging features for Linux in LEADTOOLS. Today we'll take a closer look at what the LEADTOOLS April update has for Java programmers as a whole, because it extends far beyond just Linux and document imaging.

The recent LEADTOOLS Version 19 update added far-reaching Java support for both Windows and Linux operating systems. These new, highly-requested imaging libraries for Java include functionality for nearly all markets and imaging technologies that LEADTOOLS is known for:

LEAD Technologies has released a substantial upgrade to its LEADTOOLS version 19 products that touches a wide range of technologies including OCR, document imaging, medical imaging, and PACS. Read our press release for more information on all the features included with this upgrade. As you will see, this release is jam-packed with new features and enhancements. That’s why over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be highlighting specific sets of features from the release here on our blog, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, download your free, fully functional evaluation SDK. Also, as always, this upgrade is available to all LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging customers with a current maintenance plan. Just contact sales@leadtools.com to get the latest download.

We absolutely love hearing from our customers regarding our products. In fact, one of the primary ways LEADTOOLS grows is through the direct feedback, suggestions and feature requests from our customers both with shipping products as well as those mulling through ideas during their evaluation. Today we'd like to introduce Carey Payette, an experienced programmer, mom of 3, black belt and conference speaker. She also writes for Code Project from time to time, which is why she is a part of our blog today.

She recently took LEADTOOLS for a spin and wrote about her experience with our Document Viewer and Document Converter technologies. Her article starts from scratch and shows how little effort it takes to view a raster image with searchable text in the Document Viewer. Then uses the Document Converter to convert the picture into a Microsoft Word DOCX file for editing.