Cloud Services

LEADTOOLS includes libraries to create custom RESTful/SOAP web services and JSON/XML Web APIs that can be can deployed to local servers and most popular cloud hosting providers, such as Microsoft Azure and AWS. Additionally, LEAD offers cloud services hosted by LEAD that developers can consume from their applications. Either way, developers can easily add OCR, Barcode, Passport, Driver's License, and Check recognition, as well as convert more than 165 image and document file formats to their cloud-based offerings.

Local cloud services

Host Your Own Cloud Services

If you want to use your servers to create a cloud-hosted application, LEADTOOLS supplies the necessary components to implement any LEADTOOLS feature, as a service on your own servers. Choose technologies from all of our powerhouse engines:

Hosting your own service gives the greatest flexibility because you can create an implementation specific to your needs, make unlimited calls to the API on your servers, and consume your Web Service APIs without going outside your network.

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Hosted Cloud Services

Consume LEADTOOLS Hosted Cloud Services

LEAD hosts cloud service API's that developers can consume on a pay-as-you-go or subscription pricing model. The Web APIs include high-level implementations of some of the most popular LEADTOOLS recognition and conversion technologies:

  • Extract text from documents without rasterization
  • Extract text from images with OCR
  • Decode and read data from barcodes
  • Extract text from passports
  • Extract data from AAMVA Driver's Licenses
  • Extract data from Checks with MICR
  • Convert between over 165 file formats

Using our hosted services provides an easy to use interface and pay as you go model, without the hassle of managing your own servers.

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Cloud Services libraries as well as all LEADTOOLS Recognition, Document, Medical, Vector, and Imaging technologies for all development and target platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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