The LEADTOOLS Document Analyzer is an innovative new library that intelligently finds and acts upon information in unstructured documents and images. The Document Analyzer handles what was once mundane and tedious manual work as it automatically sifts through data to find information of interest. Once a piece of information is found, an action such as highlight, redact, or extract can be applied. You will see below that the use cases of the Document Analyzer are widespread and varied, but all save time, reduce error, and improve the customer’s experience.

The AIIM Intelligent Capture/AI Virtual Event took place online at the end of April. The event had many great speakers from all around spreading the latest news on intelligent capture and AI within their companies. In case you missed it, we are pleased to have another opportunity to share a live interview with our very own Hadi Chami. In this video, Hadi goes over several use-cases of the soon to be released LEADTOOLS Document Analyzer component of the LEADTOOLS SDK.

https://youtu.be/lpgJsSfdL_c

The protection of privacy is at the forefront of concerns for many organizations that need to distribute information. One way to do this is to redact private information from an image or document before releasing it. Recently we had a customer ask how to do this with LEADTOOLS.

Using LEADTOOLS, a user would load an image or a document as an image, use the redaction annotation object to "black-out" the text, and then burn the redaction into the image. Once the protected information is redacted, the image can then be saved as a text searchable PDF so the remaining text can be indexed or searched.

One of the most important aspects of documents and record-keeping is the ability to redact sensitive information. Originally done permanently with blank ink on paper, the need for redaction certainly carried over into document imaging as processes and archives started going paperless. LEADTOOLS has many ways to redact documents, but today we're going to look at an example you might not have thought of before and would be right at home within any ECM or eDiscovery application.