Are you getting excited about HIMSS 2015? We sure are! The largest health IT event in the industry is quickly approaching and we hope to see you there. If you are planning to attend and have yet to set up a meeting with our representatives at the show, please send an email to HIMSS-2015@leadtools.com to reserve some time with our imaging experts!

HIMSS Details

April 12 - 16, 2015
Chicago, IL
Booth # 7839

If you've been keeping up with us, you are already aware of our recent update to our Android, iOS, and OS X development libraries (if not, go read it!). Shortly after that release, our developers have been rolling out updates to all of our mobile demo apps available on the App Store, Google Play, and Windows Store.

In addition to updating our existing demos, we plan on adding new demos for credit card and passport recognition, so keep a close eye on that page if those features are of particular interest to you. If you can't wait (and we don't blame you), the source code for those demos ships with the main evaluation for each platform.

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.

MPEG-2 Transport Stream is a significant feature in our Multimedia offering and covers a wide variety of industries and applications including UAV, digital television, and security. Today, we published an update that includes the ability to use push mode to capture and play from devices sending hardware-compressed MPEG-2 Transport Streams. This heavily requested feature gives developers excellent performance when interfacing with modern MPEG-2 Transport cameras and capture devices since the source stream can go directly to the LEADTOOLS MPEG-2 Transport Demultiplexer rather than forcing decompression or being limited to completed .m2ts files.

Additional Multimedia Updates

In addition to MPEG-2 Transport Stream, here are few more notable updates in today's Multimedia Release:

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: