File Formats (Raster, Vector & Document)
With LEADTOOLS, developers can create applications to load, save, and convert many industry-standard and proprietary formats. LEAD Technologies is committed to maintaining and expanding the most comprehensive support of file formats on the market, and currently supports more than 165 raster, vector, and document file formats and sub-formats.
File Formats (Raster, Vector & Document) Libraries
Each file format includes a variety of load, save, convert, and display options, including compression, bit depth, color space, progressive load (multi-pass), alpha channels, multiple pages, animation, and metadata. Developers can trust the award-winning file format support in LEADTOOLS because of its extensive inclusion and strict adherence to today's ever-changing file format specifications, while still being able to load files that may not be perfectly following the standard.
Raster Image Formats
For the past 34 years, LEAD has been expanding its image format support based on customer requests. Below is a list of some of the raster image formats supported:
- ABIC - Adaptive Bi-level Image Compression
- AFP - Advanced Function Presentation
- ANI - Windows Animated Cursor
- ANZ - Mayo Clinic Analyze Format
- ARW - Sony Raw Format
- BMP - Windows and OS/2 Bitmap
Formats - CAL - CALS Raster
- CIN - Kodak Cineon
- CLP - Windows Clipboard
- CMP - LEAD Compressed
- CMW - LEAD Wavelet
Compressed - CR2 - Canon Raw
- CRW - Canon Raw
- CUR - Windows Cursor
- CUT - Dr. Halo
- DCR - Kodak Digital Camera
- DCS - Kodak Digital Camera System
- DCM - DICOM
- DCX - Paint Brush
- DNG - Adobe Digital Negative
- DXF - Drawing Interchange
- EPS - Encapsulated Postscript
- EXIF - Exif Formats
- FAX - LaserView Laser Data
- FIT - Flexible Image Transport System
(FITS) - FLC - Flic Animation
- FPX - Kodak FlashPix
- GIF - CompuServe GIF
- GTIFF - GeoTIFF
- HDP - Windows HD Photo
- HEIC/HEIF - High Efficiency Image Format
- ICO - Windows Icon
- IFF - Interchange File Format
- IOCA - Image Object Content Architecture
- INGR - Intergraph Raster File Format
- IMG - GEM Image
- ITG - Intergraph
- JBG - JBIG
- JB2 - JBIG2
- JPG - JPEG
- JPEG-XR - Windows Media Photo & HD
Photo (HDP) - JPEG-LS - JPEG Lossless
- J2K - JPEG 2000
- JP2 - JPEG 2000 Compressed
- JPM - JPEG 2000 Part 6
- JPX - JPEG 2000 Part 2
- KDC - Kodak Digital Camera
- MAC - MacPaint
- MNG - Multiple Network Graphic
- MOB - MobiPocket File Format
- MO:DCA
- MSP - Microsoft Paint
- MRC - LEAD Mixed Raster Content
- MRC - T.44 Mixed Raster Content
- NEF - Nikon Electronic Format
- NITF - National Imagery Transmission
Format - NRW - Nikon Raw Format
- ORF - Olympus Raw Format
- PBM - Portable Bitmap Utilities
- PCD - Kodak Photo CD
- PCX - Paint Brush
- PDF - Adobe Portable Document
- PDF/A - Adobe Portable
Document for Archiving - PGM - Portable Bitmap Utilities
- PNG - Portable Network Graphics
- PNM - Portable Bitmap Utilities
- PPM - Portable Bitmap Utilities
- PS - PostScript File
- PSD - Photoshop
- PSP - Paint Shop Pro
- PTK - PTOCA
- RAS - SUN Raster
- RAF - Fujifilm Raw Format
- RAW - Raw Data
- RW2 - Panasonic Raw Format
- SCT - Scitex Continuous Tone
- SFF - Structured Fax Format
- SGI - Silicon Graphics Image
- SMP - Xionics
- SNP - Microsoft Access Report Snapshot
- SR2 - Sony Raw Format
- SRF - Sony Raw Format
- TDB - Microsoft Windows Thumbnail Cache
- TFX - Internet Fax
- TGA - Truevision TARGA
- TIFF - Tagged Image File
- TIFX - Xerox Internet Fax File
- VFF - Sun TAAC Bitmap
- WBMP - Wireless Bitmap
- WebP - Web Picture
- WFX - WinFax
- X9 - Image Cash Letter
- XBM - XBitMap
- XPM - XPicMap
- XPS - XML Paper Specification
- XWD - X WindowDump
Document and Office Formats
The LEADTOOLS SDK libraries can convert between document formats, convert document formats to raster images, raster images to documents, load documents as text-searchable, and capture print jobs as document formats with support for embedded charts, shapes, and drawings. Below is a list of some of the document/Office formats supported:
- PDF - Adobe Portable Document
- PDF/A - Adobe Portable
Document for Archiving - DOC - Microsoft Word Document
- DOCX - Microsoft Word Document 2007
- XLS - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
- XLSX - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet 2007
- XLSB - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet 2007
- PPT - PowerPoint Presentation
- PPTX - PowerPoint Presentation 2007
- HTML - HyperText Markup Language
- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
- MSG - Outlook Message Item
- EML - Outlook Express Message Item
- PST - Outlook Personal Folder
- TXT - UTF8/16 and ASCII Text
- RTF - Rich Text
- XPS - XML Paper Specification
- MOBI - Mobi Pocket eBook format
- EPUB - Electronic Publication
- ODT - OpenDocument Text
- ODS - OpenDocument Spreadsheet
- ODP - OpenDocument Presentation
Full user and owner password support for PDF files. Also supports loading Office formats that are password protected.
Vector Image Formats
The LEADTOOLS SDK libraries can load vector files are raster or as vector. Below is a list of some of the vector formats supported:
- CGM - Computer Graphics
Metafile - CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange
- DGN - Microstation DGN
- DRW - DRaWing
- DXF - Drawing Interchange
- DWF - AutoDesk Vector
- DWFX - Autodesk DWF XPS Document
- DWG - Drawing
- E00 - ArcInfo Export
- EMF - Enhanced Metafile
- GBR - Gerber
- MIF - Marker Interchange
- PCL - Printer Command Language
- PCL6 - Printer Command
Language - PCT - Macintosh Pict
- PLT - HPGL Plot
- SHP - ESRI Shape
- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
- WMF - Windows Metafile
- WMZ - Compressed Windows Metafile
- WPG - Vector Word Perfect Graphics
- NAP - North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS)
Easy to Integrate
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File Format SDK Platforms and Programming Interfaces
Operating Systems
Projects that use LEADTOOLS File Format libraries can be deployed to Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and Web devices.
Frameworks
Developers that are leveraging these frameworks can utilize the File Format SDK: .NET 6+, .NET Framework, .NET MAUI, Xamarin, UWP, WinForms, C++ Class Library, ASP.NET, and Web Services / Web API (JSON, SOAP, REST)
Programming, Scripting, Markup
File Format code snippets and demo applications are provided for the following: C#, VB, XAML, C/C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, and HTML / JavaScript
Start Coding with LEADTOOLS File Formats (Raster, Vector & Document)
File Formats (Raster, Vector & Document) libraries as well as all LEADTOOLS Recognition, Document, Medical, Vector, and Imaging technologies for all development and target platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Online Demo Application that include File Formats (Raster, Vector & Document)
HTML5/JavaScript Viewer
Demonstrates the features of the LEADTOOLS HTML5/JavaScript image viewer. Features include:
- Load an image from url
- Rotate
- Zoom
- Flip horizontally and vertically