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Build Better Apps with LEADTOOLS

Powered by patented artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, LEADTOOLS is a collection of comprehensive toolkits to integrate recognition, document, medical, imaging, and multimedia technologies into desktop, server, tablet, web and mobile solutions.

OCR/ICR

Extract machine-printed and handwritten text with unparalleled speed and accuracy to develop robust, scalable, high-performance recognition and document processing applications. Whether you want to convert images to searchable or editable documents such as PDF and DOCX, or extract values from fields on a form, business cards, invoices, and identification documents such as passports the LEADTOOLS OCR APIs give you the power to make it happen.

Barcode

Detect, read, and generate over 100 barcode types using libraries that maximize high-speed processors and automatically take advantage of multiple threads and cores by utilizing the fastest barcode recognition speed within the LEADTOOLS Barcode SDK.

PDF

Implement reliable and multi-threaded PDF functionality with a comprehensive PDF API to read, write, convert, and view PDF files without the need for third-party dependencies like Acrobat.

Forms Processing

Forms come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and uses, and LEAD's patented forms classification libraries and AI-enhanced tools will handle them all. In addition to basic forms recognition with static field locations, LEADTOOLS libraries can detect and process unstructured and loosely structured documents such as invoices, business cards, and passports.

Document Editor

Create robust, full-featured applications with rich document-editing capabilities, including text search, annotation, speech recognition, memory-efficient paging, inertial scrolling, and vector display. The LEADTOOLS Document Editor is a zero-footprint document-editing solution.

Document Viewer

Developers can create robust, full-featured applications with rich document-viewing features, including text search, annotation, memory-efficient paging, inertial scrolling, and vector display. With only a few lines of code, the LEADTOOLS Document Viewer can be added to any project.

Document Converter

Create powerful, automated document conversion, archival, and delivery systems using LEADTOOLS. Under the hood, the Document Converter uses artificial intelligence to intelligently select a combination of the LEADTOOLS Raster, SVG, OCR, and Document Writer technologies to convert images and documents using the best possible blend of accuracy and speed.

Document Analyzer

The Document Analyzer intelligently detects and extracts text, paragraphs, or any key-value from text-based office documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLX), PDFs, and document images (JPG, TIFF, PNG PDF) based on rules. This smart data extraction automatically finds key phrases within structured and unstructured documents such as invoices, statements, bills, and receipts, even if the layouts between files are completely different.

DICOM

Create entire DICOM-compatible applications that include DICOM data sets, directory (DICOMDIR), secure communication, security, 2D and 3D viewers, video playback, and medical-specific image viewing and processing. Following the latest DICOM specification, the LEADTOOLS DICOM APIs support all IODs with or without optional modules and elements.

PACS

LEADTOOLS provides easy to use, low and high-level components to rapidly develop an entire PACS solution or any component of a PACS workflow. Implement DICOM Communications to query, retrieve, and store DICOM data sets and pixel data between PACS clients and servers.

Medical Viewer

LEADTOOLS includes several Medical Viewers to display DICOM data sets and pixel data. Each viewer includes advanced medical-specific features such as multi-cell and sub-cell layouts, 16-bit extended grayscale, window leveling, image stack, metadata tags, annotations and markup, reference lines, and cine.

Video/Audio

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK products are specifically designed for the development of audio/video applications across a wide variety of industries, including defense, broadcast, and security. The SDKs offers a full range of libraries to developers and turns normally complex DirectShow and Media Foundation projects into simple tasks.

Image Viewer

Comprehensive image and document rendering controls for desktop, web, tablet and mobile devices. LEADTOOLS viewers include many core features including high-level user-interactive modes, annotation and mark-up, thumbnail display, touchscreen input and support for hundreds of image and document formats.

Image Processing

LEADTOOLS Image Processing libraries are the fastest, most robust, and most accurate functions available with over 200 image processing functions, including document cleanup, medical image enhancement, color conversion and correction, noise reduction, and edge detection.

Virtual Printer

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Driver can capture output from any application that can print, including Word, Excel, and web browsers. It is a gateway for your legacy applications to access the power of the LEADTOOLS libraries and modern workflows.

Office Formats

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 including all major document and Office formats: PDF, PDF/A, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX and more.

Recognition Engine

Recognition

AI-Powered Recognition SDK that Produces Accurate and Reliable Results

Document Engine

Document

Multifaceted Document SDK to Create, Edit, View, and Convert

Medical Engine

Medical

Extensive Medical SDK for All Your DICOM and HL7 Needs

Imaging Engine

Imaging

Robust and Comprehensive Imaging SDK

Multimedia Engine

Multimedia

Powerful Multimedia SDK for Capture, Conversion, and Streaming

What's New at LEAD

Development teams love LEADTOOLS

Mineware Consulting

"In the mining and related industries, we are constantly looking at ways to expand our offerings to our clients, which we are able to do with LEADTOOLS. Our OCR Safety Check sheets within the Syncromine suite leverages the powerful LEADTOOLS Recognition technology to recognize and import data to increase data points for analysis of mines."

Dolf van den Berg

Senior Analyst

dhs

"We have been using LEADTOOLS since the development of our first product version of the dhs Image Database in 1994. We chose LEAD because all our requirements could be covered with one tool. The dhs Image Database has been used worldwide for over 25 years as a modular image management system in the QA and the laboratory area for archiving, recording, processing, anaylsis, and documentation. We started using LEADTOOLS for reading, writing, and visualizing the already extensive number of different image formats. We’ve also started to add in annotations throughout our time using LEADTOOLS we have never experienced any major issues. Their support team has always been informative and quick to help!"

Development Team

yojna

"We chose LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro Toolkit because we needed support for all standard image formats including PNG, BMP, and JPEG. Integrating LEADTOOLS within our multi-user viewer, ImageView Standard, has helped elevate our solution to it’s best-in-class status for financial institutions and Fortune 1000 companies."

Yojna Engineering Team

pds

"We selected MiPACS as the anchor solution for Pacific Dental Services 1VU, our modern-day approach to dental image management. With 800+ offices across the US, an enterprise focused imaging solution was a must-have requirement. MiPACS integrates seamlessly with our Practice Management System EPIC, supports the sensor, panoramic and CBCT devices we want to use, and includes an HTML5 zero-footprint web viewer. It gave us confidence that MiPACS is built using the LEADTOOLS Medical Developer Toolkit. LEADTOOLS powers many enterprise applications and solutions, so we knew that MiPACS had a solid foundation backed by technology that would solve our current and future needs."

David Baker

SVP Chief Information and Digital Officer

InnerActive
InnerActive

"We needed high quality OCR libraries and text extraction for various file types. LEADTOOLS proved to be the perfect fit for our application, and the support team is outstanding."

Win Worcester

Lead Developer

VIN
Veterinary Information Network

"For over 10 years, using LEADTOOLS enables seamless image manipulation and high-resolution uploads, providing invaluable insights for our radiologists and members of Veterinarian Information Network. The integration is effortless, backed by top-notch documentation. With exceptional customer support and rich features, LEADTOOLS surpassed all the other solutions we evaluated. As a developer, LEADTOOLS simplifies my job and ensures our success."

Cliff Sockman

Software Developer

DocuWare

"We have used LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro Developer Toolkit for more than 20 years. The library is working fast and reliable. For so many years we have experienced no major issues. And this is important as rendering and image processing is a core function of the Document Management system that we provide to our customers."

Markus Koelmans

Vice President Research & Development and Quality

RADIA

“As a long-time customer of LEADTOOLS, we’ve been using LEAD’s OCR engine to extract information from incoming faxes to be stored in our database. LEAD’s OCR technology has allowed us to improve our internal workflow and organization of our records.”

David Revell

CIO

IBM

“Thanks to LEADTOOLS, we were able to easily integrate top-notch Document, OCR, and PDF functionality into our Merge Document Management paperless office solution.”

Kelly Reiman

Business Analyst, R&D

KS21 Software & Beratung GmbH

“KS21 Software & Beratung GmbH uses the LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK to capture image documentation on the construction site and to support order planning and order processing. With LEADTOOLS we found a strong business partners for the implementation of further documentation and processing mechanisms and look forward to future projects with the help of your products.”

Oliver Raepple

Product Management

eDOC Aviation Solution AG

“eDOC Aviation Solution AG specializes in software solutions for complex technical documentation. Both in our flagship applications ‘eDoc’ for document management and paperless records management and in our solutions for data extraction in special cases, we need a powerful OCR and the ability to read, edit and create PDF. LEADTOOLS provides a high-performance and reliable library with a modern API for this purpose.”

Development Team

CKAG

At Computer konkret AG we develop user-friendly, efficient and reliable billing and diagnostics software for dentist and orthodontist practices of all sizes. For years we have relied on LEADTOOLS for image presentation, processing, and the ability to import data in various formats and from various devices. This is essential for our users to efficiently access images and diagnostic data every day. LEADTOOLS meets all of our requirements for functionality, continuity, and stability. With LEADTOOLS constant further development, we are confident that we will continue to find a solution for every requirement that we have in the future.

Development Team

PathGroup

“Using LEADTOOLS Document SDK we were able to quickly develop a customized scanning application to handle the large quantity of files our employees process, store, and transfer daily.”

Andrew Bush

Developer

COTT-Systems

"We have leveraged the LEADTOOLS Document and PDF toolkits within our records management software for many years. The quality of both their components and their customer relationship team really sets them apart from other vendors."

David Hall

Project Supervisor

DigitalWarRoom

"Our eDiscovery software needs to be able to process, extract and store data from thousands of sensitive client files. LEADTOOLS Document and OCR libraries have been invaluable to our development team since 2009."

Chris Waterman

Director of Software Development

NextScan

"Integrating LEADTOOLS OCR and Recognition libraries into our scanning solutions have given our developers truly powerful technology and access to a reliable customer support team."

Torin Ford

Senior Software Engineer

Vieworks

"Making the decision to integrate LEADTOOLS was easy because of their reliable and convenient DICOM libraries. Their intuitive API helped us shrink our development time and hit our deadlines. The code samples provided on their website are extremely helpful, and to back it up they also have direct technical support to help answer any other questions."

J.W. Chang

Engineer

VirtPack Logo

"LEADTOOLS has been integrated within our document management platform, VirPack, for over 20 years. LEAD’s document conversion and annotation libraries allowed our development team to hit the ground running when building and optimizing the virtual file and workflow automation capabilities that our product provides."

Michael J. Coar Jr.

CEO

TIMS Medical

"We have been using LEADTOOLS development toolkits for over 15 years. Their customer support and development teams have been extremely responsive to all of our technical needs. Their DICOM capabilities have ensured our ability to provide DICOM communications services for our application, and has been able to help us expand our DICOM feature set over the years."

Tony Molinari

Vice President

DRGEM Corporation

"After difficulties using other tools, we were in the market for DICOM libraries from a trusted company, supported by high quality technical support, and rich in features and functionality. LEADTOOLS solved all of our problems with their Medical SDK and they provided us with excellent customer service!"

Mr. S. K. Lee

Head of Software

LG
LG Electronics

“To achieve DICOM compliant interoperability between our PACS server, MWL server, and other DICOM devices and services, we chose LEAD for their well-known and trusted LEADTOOLS DICOM libraries. I highly recommend LEADTOOLS for establishing interoperability with DICOM medical devices and equipment.”

Mr. J. W. Park

LG Electronics

Fischer-Uhrig Engineering Berlin

"In the world of IT, performance, stability and speed count. The tools from LEADTOOLS meet all of our requirements in this regard. That is why LEADTOOLS has been our partner for many years."

Dipl.-Ing. Friedrich Fischer-Uhrig

Development Team

CV Valentin

"We have been using LEADTOOLS in our Labelstar Office application to read and display graphics since 2015. We decided on LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro because integration into our existing application was quick and easy. We were impressed by the large number of supported graphic formats and functions for the post-processing of graphics, so that a high print quality can be guaranteed. LEADTOOLS was an excellent choice to solve our daily challenges with a powerful tool."

Carl Valentin GmbH

Development Team

Novologik

"We've used the LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK since 2013 within our products, DentoNovo and OrthoNovo. The reliable image viewer and various image processing functions available within the SDK allow us to deliver dentists and orthodontists an all-in-one solution for their clinic administration needs."

Patrick Sabourin

Président

Procentrix

"Thanks to LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition and Processing, we are able to provide reliable OCR capabilities and streamline our data processing and intake. We can always count on the LEADTOOLS Support team to provide fantastic customer service!"

Raymond Weber

Cloud Engineer SME

Aumentum

"We are always looking to help our customers improve their productivity and customer service by simplifying the records management life cycle. As long-time users of LEADTOOLS, we knew we could trust the reliable LEADTOOLS OCR SDK and comprehensive LEADTOOLS Document SDK to offer powerful functionality to our government customers through our record management software."

Marlys Gardner

Product Manager

Ophthalmic Labs Logo

"LEADTOOLS toolkits are easy-to-use and integrate into real-world situations. Having worked with LEAD for several years, I know I can always count on the LEADTOOLS Sales and Support teams to provide industry knowledge, great customer service, and flexibility to assist with wherever my needs are with my ongoing projects."

Matthew Carnevale

MedInformatix Logo

"We can always count on the LEADTOOLS technical support team to answer any questions we may have and make our application development consistent, easy, and quick. As longtime users of LEADTOOLS, we greatly appreciate their helpful technical support and flexible licensing!"

Jay Mencio

Integration Engineer