• LEADTOOLS for WPF Express - Includes everything you need to start adding imaging functions to your WPF applications, including a WPF Image Viewer that supports the Microsoft .NET BitmapSource class.

• LEADTOOLS for WPF Standard - Contains full featured versions of the WPF Image Viewer and ImageList controls, Bitmap Effects, and 40+ WIC Codecs.

• LEADTOOLS WPF Module (for Raster Pro and up) - Leverages features and functionality in LEADTOOLS 15. Using LEAD's WPF interface, you can add LEADTOOLS OCR, TWAIN scanning, document pre-processing, medical imaging, and much more to any WPF application. Expression Blend-compatible XAML controls offer complete interoperation support between LEADTOOLS and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) images.

• USPS 4-State barcode symbol is used in the USPS Intelligent Mail system. It combines the data from both PLANET and POSTNET symbols and additional tracking information into one barcode symbol. USPS plans to require the 4-State barcode to qualify for automation discounts at the beginning of 2009 as documented on the USPS website.

• GS1DataBar (formally known as RSS) is a 1D barcode that will replace existing EAN/UPC barcodes in 2010 as documented on the GS1.org website. GS1 DataBar stores more information in a smaller space.

• MicroPDF417 is a 2D barcode derived from PDF417 and is designed for applications that need to store a moderate amount of data (150 bytes of data, 250 characters or 366 digits) while keeping the symbol size to a minimum.

• Improved PDF417 Reconition Algorithms - LEAD is always optimizing and enhancing its barcode recognition algorithms to improve recognition and speed. For example, the new PDF417 engine is now able to recognize symbols that have been marked, scratched or stretched.

• Advanced Image Processing - LEADTOOLS includes advanced image processing functions that add value to the LEADTOOLS Barcode SDK. These functions can be used in special case situations to improve recognition and speed. Examples showing this are available from the LEADTOOLS support department and http://support.leadtools.com/SupportPortal/cs/forums/18165/ShowPost.aspx.

• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Enabled Image Controls - The new LEADTOOLS Raster Tiled Image Viewer and Web Thumbnail Viewer (image list) controls enable you to add fast, interactive image viewing to your AJAX web applications. Support also includes a Pan Viewer control.  Ships with source code for complete document and color image processing demo applications.
  
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  LEADTOOLS AJAX Web Forms Document Clean-up Demo
  This demo features some of the LEADTOOLS Document Image Clean-up functionality on the web using the new LEADTOOLS Image viewer AJAX Web Form control and LEADTOOLS Image Thumbnail AJAX Web Form control.

  LEADTOOLS AJAX Web Forms Image Processing Demo
  This demo features some of the LEADTOOLS Image Process functionality on the web using the new LEADTOOLS Image viewer AJAX Web Form control, LEADTOOLS Image Thumbnail AJAX Web Form control and LEADTOOLS Image Pan Window AJAX Web Form control.

• COM Wrapper - COM and ActiveX developers can now use LEADTOOLS V15.  The new COM objects wrap the powerful LEADTOOLS V15 .NET classes so you can incorporate the full LEADTOOLS .NET platform functionality into your applications. As an added bonus, you will be ".NET ready" as the methods and properties of the LEADTOOLS COM object mirror that of the LEADTOOLS .NET classes, saving you time in the future when you can port your application to .NET.

• .NET 3.0 (WPF) - Your WPF-based applications can now leverage the power of LEADTOOLS image processing and file input / output functionality. A new conversion class allows developers to convert the LEAD RasterImage class to and from the .NET 3.0 BitmapSource class. For more information about this, contact support@LEADTOOLS.com.

• JPX Support (JPEG2000 Part2) - Especially useful for document, medical, and satellite imagery archiving systems.  All LEADTOOLS Raster Pro, Document Imaging, and Medical Imaging toolkits can read / parse JPX files.  LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging toolkits can also write / update JPX files.

• DXF Format Support -This version includes an updated DXF parser; updates algorithms for drawing objects and adds extrusion support; improves the rendering of model and paper space; adds entity block rendering, multi-line objects, multi-line text objects, end arrows, and width and bulge values for polyline objects; and enhances performance for ellipse rotation, arc angles, hatches, splines, and attributes.

• XPS (XML Paper Specification) file support - New electronic document format supported natively by Office 2007 and Windows VISTA. For more information on XPS, click here.

• MNG (Multiple Network Graphic) file support - a multiple-image member of the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format family. It can contain animations, slide shows, or complex still frames, comprised of multiple PNG or JPEG Network Graphic (JNG) single-image datastreams. For more information on MNG, click here.

• PDF with CMYK data Support - LEADTOOLS now supports saving PDF files with CMYK data. For more information on PDF, click here.

• Code Snippets - IntelliSense Code Snippets allow you to insert ready-made snippets of code into your projects. LEADTOOLS ships with many IntelliSense Code Snippets for C#, VB.NET and COM.  They are automatically integrated into the Visual Studio 2005 IDE during product installation.  To use the LEADTOOLS IntelliSense Code Snippets, you simply select them from the Microsoft Code Snippet Picker.
  
  For more information on using the Code Snippet Picker, refer to the MSDN documentation. For a short video showing the use of the LEADTOOLS IntelliSense Code Snippets, click here.

• Signed Support - LEADTOOLS has added signed image support to 50 functions. Over half of all LEADTOOLS image functions now support both signed and unsigned images.

• Deskew Check Functions - Were designed specifically to aid automation of bank check scanning, recognition and archiving. Its powerful, reliable, automatic deskew features use a proprietary algorithm to detect bank check image orientation, and within milliseconds rotate it to horizontal or vertical.

• Blank Page Detect Functions - Designed to help reduce disk storage and unnecessary processing of blank pages in document imaging applications.  Can detect noisy, bleed through and lined blank pages with high precision and speed.

• ANSI support in V15 (including ClassLib) -LEADTOOLS Version 15 now supports both ANSI and UNICODE development in the same libraries.

• New .NET tutorials - VB6 and COM developers can now use LEADTOOLS v15. .NET tutorials include demonstrations of the new COM wrapper, how to use the registration marks demo, and how to load and save images using databases without data binding.

• Documentation Enhancements - This update incorporates improved help navigation, dozens of new examples and tutorials, and hundreds of new and improved index entries. API and C++ Class Library Help now includes Advanced Search, a Favorites tab, and Locate, Products, and Support buttons.

• This release incorporates improved help navigation, dozens of new examples and tutorials, and hundreds of new and improved index entries. API and C++ Class Library Help now includes Advanced Search, a Favorites tab, and Locate, Products, and Support buttons.

• 64 Bit Support - In addition to Win32 support, LEADTOOLS Raster, Document, Medical and Vector toolkits now provide support for developing applications to target Windows XP 64-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit.  The toolkit includes 32 and 64-bit API, C++ Class Library and .NET Class Library interfaces.

• Dramatically Improved Performance -Increased speed of the LEADTOOLS engines including encoders/decoders (CCITT G3, CCITT G4, JBIG, ABC, JPEG, etc) and many of the image processing functions.

• Web Forms/AJAX - Develop rich interactive AJAX-style web-based applications using ASP .NET.
  • Based on ASP.NET 2.0 Client Callbacks Manager.
  • A Web ImageViewer control for displaying an image on an ASP.NET 2.0 web form
  • The ImageViewer is used to display any LEAD image file format by converting it to browser friendly format (JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP) on the fly.
  • Includes an HTTP handler to serve non-browser supported formats.
  • Large image support through tiling, by loading tiled sections of an image "On-Demand" when the relevant section of an image is zoomed into view, Tile width/height can be arbitrary changed.
  • Includes an HTTP handler to get file information for files on the server or accessible via http.
  • The ImageViewer control can automatically handle zooming and scrolling.
  • Create AJAX-style Web applications that deal with huge images such as Geospatial imaging applications like Google™ Earth. Only the portions of the image required for display are downloaded and decompressed.
  • New Web Forms Demos - Click here for C# and VB demos

• Windows HD Photo Format - LEADTOOLS V15 now supports the Windows HD Photo Format.

• Vista Icon Format - LEADTOOLS now supports the Vista Icon format (PNG compressed Icon).

• New Features Added to the .NET Library
  • Special Effects for image display
  • Screen Capture
  • DICOM and DICOM Communication
  • Barcode reading and writing
  • New File Formats in .NET
    • DJV
    • SID
    • TFX
    • PCT
    • FPX
    • WMZ
    • Windows HD Photo
    • Vista Icon format (PNG compressed Icon)
  • .NET Viewer and ImageList Enhancements
    • Multi-select with mouse
    • Rubberband select
    • Pan window with Annotations
    • Magnifying Glass with Annotations

• Medical Imaging
• 32-bit Integer Grayscale support – load/save/display (DICOM/TIFF)
• Complete native .NET support for DICOM and DICOM Communication
• Unicode Support
• New features added to Medical Image viewer
  • Annotations and image markup support, including conversion of existing annotation object(s) to a region.
  • Cine tool that allows playing stacked images and frames like a movie.
  • Ruler calibration.
  • Support for ROI (region of interest) with different types of region combine modes.
  • Easy access to the images managed by the container, which opens the door for manipulating these images through a wide range of image processing functions supported by LEADTOOLS.
  • New options for changing the appearance and other visual attributes of the container.
  • “Title Bar” feature that allows the user to show/hide a title bar that can be associated with every sub-cell managed by the container.

• Vector Format Enhancements
• Transparency support for raster objects
• Convert Polydraw into Polygon & Polylines
• Support for units
• Improved support for DWG, DXF and DWF formats
• Added support for saving DGN
• Added support for NAP format

• NITF Format Support
• The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is the suite of standards for formatting and exchanging digital imagery and imagery-related products defined by the United States Department of Defense (US DOD). This standard allows for interoperability of systems used for formatting, transmitting, receiving, and processing imagery and imagery-related information.
  
  
• Barcode
  • Improved Barcode Recognition accuracy
  • Faster Barcode Recognition
  • New Linear 1D Barcode types
    • EAN13
    • UPCA
    • UPCE
    • EAN8
    • EAN EXT 5
    • EAN EXT 2
    • Code 3 of 9
    • Code 93
    • Codeabar
    • Code 3 of 9 Extended
    • Code 93 Extended
    • Code 32
    • CODE 11
    • Code 128
    • UCC/EAN128
    • Standard Code 2 of 5 (Industrial)
    • Interleaved Code 2 of 5
    • Airline Code 2 of 5
    • MSI (Modified Plessey)
    • Patch Code
    • PostNet
    • Planet
    • Australian post-4 State
    • Royal Mail (RM4SCC)
    • RSS14
    • RSS14 Truncated
    • RSS14 Limited
    • RSS14 Expanded
    • RSS14 Stacked
    • RSS14 Stacked Omni-Directional
    • RSS14 Expanded Stacked

• Databind Support for .NET Viewer Control – Use the .NET database engine to store and retrieve images to/from any database supported by .NET.

• New interpolation options for image resize:
  • Triangular-peaked weighting
  • Hermite
  • Bell
  • Quadratic B-Spline
  • Cubic B-Spline
  • BoxFilter (Nearest Neighbor)
  • Lanczos
  • Michell
  • Cosize
  • CatmullRom
  • Quadratic
  • Cubic Convolution
  • Bilinear
  • Bresenham

• Image Histogram Dialog - Medical Imaging demo that shows how LEADTOOLS functionality can segment, redistribute, and remove noise from the image data. This demo supports most Medical image types including 12 and 16-bit grayscale images, images with signed or un-signed data, and images with a LUT.

• Printing function using GDI+ - A new function which uses GDI+ for optimized and fast printing of images. It produces a smaller spooler file size, which will increase the speed of the printing over a network.

• Support for saving 32-bit RGB-alpha JPEG2000 images
  • Support for lossy JPEG2000 compression of 32-bit images - the alpha can be saved either lossy or lossless. (i.e. the color components of the image can be saved as lossy while the alpha data is saved as lossless.)
  • Support for controlling the active bits of the alpha channel has been added to improve the compression.

• New features added to the Ltimg Image Processing dll
  • A new set of image processing functions and new features and options for existing functions.
  • New “Signed Image data” support for most of the existing medical image processing functions.
  • Split the Image Processing dll into four separate. This makes the product easier to use and more optimized for the web.

Multimedia

• MPEG-2 Transport Stream Module
  • Allows you to play MPEG-2 Transport and MPEG-2 Program files from a file or UDP stream. Perfect for applications that accept video streams from hardware encoders, such as video from satellites and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Demos are available with source code that demonstrate how to handle metadata stored in such streams (especially KLV).
• DVD image creation – allows you to create DVD images that can be burned onto DVD disks.
• DVD burning – allows you to burn DVD images onto DVD disks.
• Create and play files based on ISO media format (MP4, 3GPP, Quicktime, AVC, AAC). These files are used by most common portable media players (like iPOD, PSP, ZEN, Zune, etc) and the new generation of mobile phones
• Enhanced H.264 support – Increased speed for H.264 encoding and decoding.
  • The new, faster H.264 compression produces great quality and requires very small bitrates. The combination of this fast low bitrate video compression with a newly added AMR low bitrate audio CODEC, LEAD's network multiplexer/Demultiplexer, and three sample applications with source code demonstrates the power of the new video conference technologies at work. Developers can develop a complete video conferencing application using bandwidth as low as 35K, 128K and 256K transfer bitrate. A delay that is less than 1/2 second allows normal conversation to be carried all over the world using realtime audio and video compression.
  • The new encoder and decoder make use of the multi-core capability of the new CPUs.
  • The decoder can play HD videos in real time.
• New codecs:
• AC3 audio encoder (high quality audio used to create DVD with stereo or Dolby® surround 5.1 sound).
• AAC audio codec (high quality audio with good compression). This is the standard audio compression used by MP4 files.
• AMR audio codec (good quality compressor for low bitrates). Very good for streaming (video conferencing) and 3GPP files (files used by most mobile phones).

• Many filters are now included with the multimedia toolkit. Please click here for more details.
• New filter evaluation mechanism makes it easier to use LEAD DirectShow filters and codecs.
• Auto deinterlace option automatically enhances video quality for interlaced videos while preserving the quality of non-interlaced video.
• Bresenham resize options provide fast high quality resize algorithm.

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