LEADTOOLS Raster Pro, Document, and Medical Imaging Toolkit Features

Raster Imaging Pro SDK

LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro provides win32 and x64 support for adding the capability to display, load, save, convert or process images to any application. The toolkit supports Color Conversion, Display, and Compression (JPEG, JPEG 2000 [read], TIFF, CCITT G4 and LEAD's proprietary CMP, CMW, and ABC). Developers get support for all of the technologies found in the LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Engine, including Image Processing (Transforms, Filters, Drawing, Region of Interest), TWAIN Scanning (32-bit), Color Conversion, Display, Special Effects, (choose from more than 2000 effects), Compression, Image Format support (150+), Printing, Internet/intranet imaging, Database imaging, Imaging Common Dialogs, and Screen Capture.

In addition, LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro offers the ability to directly call exported DLL functions, create extremely small footprint applications, obtain low-level access to pixel data, create custom image processing filters, exert full control over load/process/save with callbacks, share images (without copying) via DIBs/DDBs, exert full control over all display options, and support the extended FlashPix file format capabilities.

Key Features:

$image\sqrblit.gif$ File Format Support. Read, write and convert image files in over 150 of the most popular standard image formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000 [read], GIF, TIFF (including G3/G4, LZW, CMYK, JTIF), PNG, BMP, MODCA/IOCA, PCX, TGA, and XPS.

FlashPix extended support. LEADTOOLS FlashPix extended support provides increased versatility in the handling of color and grayscale images.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ WPF support. Windows Presentation Foundation is part of the .NET Framework 3.0. It handles interoperability with Win32, media services, databinding, and user aspects.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Image Compression. Compress images using the best and fastest compression algorithms, such as JPEG, CMP, CMW, ABC, LZW, G3/G4, Huffman, and run-length. LEADTOOLS offers comprehensive support for compression schemes found in standard raster file formats, as well as high-performance proprietary compression technologies that outperform the industry standards.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Image Processing. Use more than 200 digital filters and transforms to process images (or selected portions). Includes smooth, sharpen, edge detect/enhance, modify brightness/contrast/gamma, change hue and saturation, red-eye removal, unsharp mask, add noise, and resize and rotate images using various resampling techniques (including bicubic). Over half of all image functions support both signed and unsigned images.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Image Display. control brightness and contrast settings, color reduction with dithering and palette control, zooming/scaling/fitting, panning, scrolling, painting with transparency and/or regions. Additionally, LEADTOOLS provides image-list and thumbnail browser controls, a special magnifying-glass feature, as well as an automated pan-window control.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Image Optimizer. Optimize images for websites or applications by reducing colors and maximizing compression.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Color Conversion. Changing the color mode changes the amount of data stored per pixel, which alters an image's memory/disk requirements. Convert between color modes, like 24-bit true-color, 8-bit indexed, 1-bit black/white, and many others.
Full documentation can be found in Color Conversion API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ FAST TWAIN support (32-bit). Control image acquisition from any device (scanner, digital camera, etc) which supports TWAIN. Use device's built in user-interface or create your own. Analyze the TWAIN source, considering the bits per pixel, image type and compression requested from the TWAIN device, and find the fastest compression type, transfer mode and buffer schemes to get the best performance possible.
Full documentation can be found in TWAIN API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Screen Capture. LEADTOOLS provides functions for capturing all or part of the screen. The result can then be used with any of the LEADTOOLS image processing functions and can be saved in any file format that LEAD supports.
Full documentation can be found in Screen Capture API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Printing. Print images or selected regions while controlling position/scaling, halftoning/dithering. Print multiple images and text to a single or multiple pages.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Common Dialogs. Imaging Common Dialogs provide a set of common dialog boxes that combine Windows Common Dialog functionality with LEADTOOLS imaging functionality. Common dialogs are provided for every LEADTOOLS image processing function, plus FileOpen, FileSave, Color Resolution, Image Processing/Filtering, Effects and others. You can specify your own String and/or Text, as well as handle Language Customization - a great feature for globalizing your software.
Full documentation can be found in Common Dialogs API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Database Imaging. Store images (any supported file-format/compression-technique) to a variety of databases, including SQL, Oracle or any database which supports ODBC, OLE DB, or that can be bound via VB data control connections.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Internet. Includes functions to load images from URLs or memory streams. LEADTOOLS products can be used to extend functionality on a server or in Internet Explorer.
Full documentation can be found in Internet API help.

Web Forms (AJAX). LEADTOOLS AJAX support enables you to add fast, interactive image viewing to your web applications.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Digital Paint.- A must for anyone who wants to add digital painting functionality to their application. With LEADTOOLS' Digital Paint feature, a developer can create an entire image editing or design application, or simply add pieces of those types of functionality into an existing application.
Full documentation can be found in Digital Paint API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Barcode Modules. LEADTOOLS Barcode Module functions allow you to read barcodes, write barcodes and find duplicate barcodes within an image. Barcode modules allow programmers to easily integrate the ability to read and write barcode symbols into their applications.
Full documentation can be found in Barcode API help.

Document and Medical Imaging Toolkits

Building on LEADTOOLS core Raster Imaging functions, the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging, LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite, LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging and LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite are the most comprehensive imaging toolkits on the market. No other toolkit provides as many imaging features for color, gray-scale and black & white images in one development package, and for one price. These toolkits comprise LEAD's best code and are designed for the programmer who is looking for the fastest performance, and/or the most extensive color, document, and medical imaging capabilities available.

These toolkits contain powerful annotation capabilities, optimized document image processing filters, and high performance compression, decompression and viewing of ABIC, CMW wavelet, JBIG/JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG 2000 (read/write), LEAD CMP, LEAD ABC (bitonal), and CCITT G3/G4 file formats. The annotation capabilities enable the programmer to add text, highlights, sticky notes, audio, ellipses, buttons, lines, arrows, rectangles, polygons, redaction (blackout), hotspots, freehand scribble, pointers, bitmap and text stamps, to black & white and color images. Programmers working with document imaging will also find special processing filters such as despeckle, deskew, favor black, and scale to gray to enhance their black and white 1 bit images. Additionally, you can achieve faster rotation in 90-degree increments by applying a rotated view perspective to the bitmap. These LEADTOOLS toolkits offer the fastest software-only JPEG decoder Also known as a decompressor, this is a module or algorithm to decompress data. available.

[Document/Medical] is used throughout the help files to designate the features that are available in LEADTOOLS Document Imaging, LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite, LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging and LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite. Those features that are available only in the Medical toolkits are indicated by (Medical). Features available only in the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite toolkit are indicated by (Medical Suite).

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK

The LEADTOOLS Document Imaging toolkit contains all the features available in the LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro. In addition, it contains the following capabilities:

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Annotation. LEADTOOLS supports annotation of images by letting you overlay images with text, lines, shapes, arrows, buttons, highlights, hot spots, sticky notes, stamps, buttons, and sounds.

Bitonal Scaling (Image Enhancement) for black-and-white images. LEADTOOLS functions for bitonal images greatly enhance their on-screen quality and readability. These functions are especially useful for working with images from black-and-white scanners or FAX machines.

Document Cleanup (Image Enhancement) for bitonal images. Other LEADTOOLS functions for bitonal images (especially useful for working with images from black-and-white scanners or FAX machines) let you do things such as automatically straighten (deskew) an image (ncluding proprietary functions for deskewing scanned bank checks), remove spots (despeckle), or clarify a scaled display (using scale-to-gray and favor-black features). Document toolkits also include support for removing dots, blobs, holes (holepunch marks), inverted text, lines, borders, bumps and nicks from 1-bit images.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Fast rotation. LEADTOOLS achieves fast rotation in 90-degree increments by applying a rotated view perspective to the bitmap.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Embedded Messages. The Document toolkits include support for embedding messages in lossless image formats like bmp, tiff, lossless jpeg, etc. The message is embedded without any visible changes to the image, and does not appreciably increase the size of the image. The message is password-protected.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ 12 and 16 bit grayscale images. Load, process, display, window level and save 12 and 16 bit grayscale images (including support for 16-bit grayscale TIFF).

$image\sqrblit.gif$ ABIC. Read and write ABIC compressed files (used for compressing bank check images).

$image\sqrblit.gif$ JBIG filter. LEAD includes support for this filter in the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging toolkits. JBIG defines a method for lossless compression encoding of a bi-level image (two-color image). This method can also be used for coding grayscale and color images. LEADTOOLS completely supports all three types of images, giving you the ability to make full use of this powerful compression technology. LEADTOOLS also supports the progressive capability of JBIG, allowing you to store and send multiple representations of images at different resolutions without any extra storage overhead.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ MRC Support. LEADTOOLS supports the Mixed Raster Content format for color documents containing mixed image and text components.
Full documentation can be found in Mixed Raster Content help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ NITF Plug-in. The LEADTOOLS NITF Plug-in provides functions that enable you to manipulate the National Imagery Transmission Format in your Windows applications.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Raster PDF Save. Support for saving raster images as a PDF file. This includes the Advanced PDF save and compression features.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ A full overview of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging capabilities can be found in Document Imaging help.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite

The LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite toolkit builds on the capabilities of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging, adding key OCR and JBIG features:.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ OCR, ICR, OMR, and PDF OCR features. LEADTOOLS OCR features, built with Nuance Textbridge technology, allow you to perform optical character recognition and turn images into documents. OCR support is included in the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite, or can be added as a plug-in to the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging, LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging and LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite toolkits.

Features include preset confidence and accuracy levels for controlling how sensitive the engine is to unrecognized text, artificial intelligence for improving recognition on documents of the same type, and built-in plus user-defined lexicons for limiting the type of text to recognize within a particular zone, as well as the ability to verify or correct text during recognition. The OCR engine can perform Automatic area segmentation creating multi-layered zones, recognizing areas such as tables, rules, images and text. Or, you can manually designate up to 250 such zones. Different fonts, font sizes (5 to 72 point), and styles are also supported. Fax, dot matrix and halftones can be preprocessed to improve recognition results. The OCR Engine supports major European and Scandinavian languages (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish) as well as English. Support for dialects such as US. English, French Canadian, Latin American Spanish, Swiss German, and Brazilian Portuguese is also provided.

Recognized text can be exported to more than 150 different formats, including MS Word, MS Excel, Dbase and WordPerfect. The LEADTOOLS OCR features contain superior OCR processing speeds, for use in form recognition and processing applications.
Full documentation can be found in OCR API help.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging support for medical imaging technologies (1-16, 24-, and 32-bit color, 1-16 bit grayscale and window leveling of 12- and 16-bit grayscale images) and the DICOM file format to all the capabilities of the LEADTOOLS Raster Pro SDK and Document Imaging Suite:

$image\sqrblit.gif$ DICOM file support. LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging provides complete support for the DICOM 3.0 specification, including all standard IOD classes and modalities (CR, CT, MR, NM, US, RF, SC, VL, etc.) and complete DICOM Basic Directory support.
Full documentation can be found in DICOM API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Window leveling. Detect and set LowBit and HighBit for image data, display images with automatic LUT intensity expansion, or set LUT entries and ranges with specific values and gradients. Display images through the LUT without changing the data, or process the image data using the LUT. Linearize the number of pixels locally in a bitmap, based on the specified color space in order to bring out the detail in dark areas of an image, and smooth the edges between blocks.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Medical Imaging Processing. LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging provides image processing functionality designed specifically to allow you to examine and improve the quality of medical images.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite includes all the capabilities of LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging, and adds:

$image\sqrblit.gif$ DICOM Communication support. LEADTOOLS provides complete support for DICOM Communications, including all Service Classes (Verification, Storage, Query/Retrieve, Patient Management, etc), and contains high-level communications functions simplifying the creation of DICOM client/server applications.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ DICOM Security. LEADTOOLS Dicom Security features support the Secure Transport Connection Profiles as specified in part 15 of the DICOM 3 standard.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Medical Image Viewer Control. The LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer Control provides support for displaying one or more images and for the real-time manipulation of one or more images.
Full documentation can be found in Medical Image Viewer API help.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Medical Multimedia Filter Pack. The LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Filter Pack is a suite of DirectShow A multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files. Most Windows video-related applications on Windows, such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player, use DirectShow to manage multimedia content. filters for compressing and decompressing video and audio data inside DICOM files.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Multimedia Toolkit. The LEADTOOLS Multimedia toolkit is designed to provide you with all of the tools you need to create professional, high-quality multimedia applications. With it you can add multimedia functionality such as Capture, Play, and Edit, as well as the latest DirectShow filters and multimedia file support.

For more information, refer to:

Getting Started with Leadtools

Document/Medical Edition Support and Licensing Requirements

Unlocking Special LEAD Features