LEADTOOLS Toolkit Descriptions

The LEADTOOLS product line includes stand-alone toolkits, add-on modules, and product bundles. They are specifically targeted for programmers developing medical, document imaging and recognition, multimedia, still-frame imaging, and vector imaging applications. A brief overview of the different products follows.

Imaging Pro SDK

LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro provides Win32 and x64 support for adding to any application the capability to display, load, save, convert, or process images. The toolkit supports color conversion, display, and compression in high-performance formats such as JPEG, JPEG 2000 (J2K and JP2), TIFF, CCITT G4 and LEAD's proprietary CMP, CMW, and ABC.

With Imaging Pro, developers get support for all of the technologies found in the LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine, including image processing (transforms, filters, drawing, region of interest), TWAIN Scanning, 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 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, take full control of load/process/save with callbacks, share images (without copying) via DIBs/DDBs, customize all display options, and support the extended FlashPix file format capabilities.

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Document and Medical Imaging Toolkits

Building on LEADTOOLS core Raster Imaging functions, LEADTOOLS Document Imaging and LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging are the most comprehensive imaging toolkits on the market. [Document/Medical] is used throughout the help files to designate those features that are available in all of these premium SDKs.

These toolkits are LEAD's flagship products and are designed for the programmer who is looking for the fastest performance and most extensive color, document, and medical imaging capabilities available. No other toolkits provide as many imaging features for color, grayscale and black-and-white images in one development package, or for one price.

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, JPX (read/write), JPIP, LEAD CMP, LEAD ABC (bitonal), and CCITT G3/G4 file formats. These LEADTOOLS toolkits offer the fastest software-only JPEG decoder available.

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-and-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.

The Leadtools.Controls namespace contains an image viewer control for displaying images in HTML5 applications. Several annotations namespaces provide full-featured support for annotations in HTML5 applications.

LEADTOOLS NITF functions enable you to manipulate the National Imagery Transmission Format in your Windows applications.

The LEADTOOLS WinRT SDK contains everything a developer needs to create imaging-enabled Windows Store applications. It is available as an add-on to any of the Document or Medical products.

 

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK

The LEADTOOLS Document Imaging toolkit contains all the features available in LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro, plus the following capabilities:

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Modules and Plug-ins

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging modules and plug-ins build on the capabilities of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging, adding automated Forms Recognition, Barcode Imaging, OCR / MICR, ICR, OMR, PDF OCR, and Advanced PDF, and Raster PDF Read and Write support to document imaging applications.

 

LEADTOOLS Recognition

LEADTOOLS Recognition SDK is a handpicked collection of modules including Advantage OCR, OMR, PDFOCR, 1D and 2D Barcode. It is designed to help systems developers build end-to-end document applications for capturing, classification, forms processing, archiving and viewing as part of an enterprise level document automation solution.

The provided Recognition and Processing engines allow developers to fully automate document classification and data extraction for known forms. The Recognition engine creates unique XML data for each known form which is used to identify any form requiring recognition. The Processing engine uses templates, allowing users to define a specific set of fields (along with each fields type) for each known form. These fields can be defined using the Master Forms Editor shipped with the SDK, or developers can create their own template editor using the toolkit. Supported field types include machine and hand written characters, check boxes, filled bubbles, cross marks, barcodes, and more.

 

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LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite

The LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK includes all of the functionality in LEADTOOLS Recognition, and adds extra features resulting in a single toolkit with everything necessary to build enterprise level document imaging applications.

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LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK

To all the capabilities of the LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro and Document Imaging toolkits, LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging adds support for medical imaging technologies and the DICOM file format, supporting 1- through 16-, 24-, and 32-bit color, 1- through 16-bit grayscale, and window leveling of 12- and 16-bit grayscale images. Features available only in Medical toolkits indicated by [Medical], are:

LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging

LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging provides you with everything you need to create both client and server components of a picture archive and retrieval system (PACS) that can retrieve, distribute, and present medical images. The module includes full support for medical data communications, automated processing, and all DICOM client/server classes, command sets, and command elements including:

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite

Develop powerful PACS and Medical imaging applications with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite. Features include Medical Web Viewer Framework, Medical 3D, Medical Multimedia, high and low level PACS SCP and SCU functions and controls, DICOM PACS communication security, comprehensive full DICOM dataset support, 8-16 bit extended grayscale image support, image annotation, specialized extended grayscale image display such as window level and LUT processing, and specialized medical image processing. Other features include lossless JPEG compression, JPIP, and signed and unsigned image data processing.

 

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Modules and Plug-ins

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging modules and plug-ins enable you to add:

LEADTOOLS Multimedia

Create professional, high-quality multimedia applications encompassing everything from file conversion to video conferencing and streaming. The LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK allows developers to add support for Capture, Play, Edit, conversion to and from many formats including AVI, MPEG-2 Program/Transport, MPEG-1, ISO (MP4, 3GPP, AAC, AVC1, MOV), XVID, WMV , WAV, WMA,  OGG, and more. Also provided is the most comprehensive set of DirectShow filters which can be used for almost any multimedia processing task. The provided high level interface allows for programmatic control over multimedia processors, compressors, video and audio inputs, types and sub-types, video capture size, camera specific features (brightness, contrast, zoom, etc).

LEADTOOLS Multimedia includes:

The LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK includes full or evaluation versions* of many DirectShow filters such as encoders, decoders, multiplexers, demultiplexers, sources, and sinks. Also included are evaluation versions [*] of the DVD writer, DVD burner, MPEG-1 multiplexer, MPEG-2 multiplexer, ISO multiplexer/demultiplexer, Screen capture filter, Network filters (source, mux, sink and protocol manager), DICOM medical toolkit filters and more.

Refer to LEADTOOLS DirectShow Filters for a complete listing of available filters. Refer to the Multimedia Product Comparison Chart to see which licensed filters are included with the various LEADTOOLS products. LEADTOOLS Multimedia includes evaluation versions of all DirectShow filters that may be used for development and testing.

[*] For pricing on filter and codec client licenses, contact sales@LEADTOOLS.com.

 

LEADTOOLS Multimedia Suite

Includes the LEADTOOLS Multimedia toolkit,every LEAD codec and filter (except the DICOM filters), the LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro toolkit, the LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK, and the following Multimedia add-ons:

LEADTOOLS DVD Module

LEADTOOLS Video Streaming Module

LEADTOOLS MPEG-2 Transport Module

LEADTOOLS DVR Module

 

LEADTOOLS Multimedia Modules and Plug-ins

LEADTOOLS Multimedia Modules enable you to add:

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro

The LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro toolkit includes everything you need to create powerful 2-D and 3-D viewers, editors, and converters that support both vector and raster image formats.

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro provides support for 2D and 3D Vector formats, including: imaging, loading, viewing, modifying and saving vector files to memory or disk. Vector files can be loaded from one format and saved as another, without the need for the original application that created the file. Vector image formats can be loaded, saved, converted and exported to any of 120+ raster formats.

Primitive Object support includes: Arc, Bitmap, Brush, Camera, Circle, Clone, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc, Font, Group, Layer, Line, Pen, Pie, Chord, Poly Draw, Polygon, Poly Line, and Poly Bezier.

For information about all LEAD products, visit www.leadtools.com.

For more information, refer to:

Licensing Requirements

Unlocking Special LEAD Features

LEADTOOLS Product Comparison Chart

LEADTOOLS Multimedia Product Comparison Chart

LEADTOOLS OCR Modules Comparison Chart

See Also:

LEADTOOLS Documentation

LEADTOOLS Support Forums

Sample Programs