Today, we are happy to announce a major update to LEADTOOLS Version 19. Special focus was given to the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging engines, each of which we will cover in a blog post.
First up, let’s take a look at what’s new in the Document Imaging Engine:
OCR
- Faster deskew on high resolution (600DPI and greater) images
- Memory optimizations for auto zoning algorithm (up to 60%)
- Improved paragraph, font and zone detection
- Support for vertical text zones
- Detect vertical and horizontal table cell direction
- Text Book option which enhances graphic zone detection through cleaning of noisy texts
- Memory and speed enhancements for Advantage OCR engine’s Native spell checker
- Native x64 support for Professional OCR engine
- Rotation angle support for all engines
Forms
- Improved invoice recognition accuracy
Documents SDK
- Convert and Save documents with the zero-footprint HTML5 Document Viewer
- Faster SVG and raster image rendering, thumbnail generation and bookmark extraction in Document Viewer
- Faster OCR and SVG conversion using multi-threading in the Document Converter
- Support for ZIP compression in the Document Converter
- Enhanced output for PDF and Word
- Support for vertical text zones
- SVG viewing and conversion support for HTML, RTF and TEXT
- DOCX and PPTX support for Windows Phone 8.1
Annotations
- Faster DirectX rendering engine for WPF and WinRT
- Fill objects with linear gradient brush
- Improved clip drawing for objects outside container bounds
- Draw and edit annotations at the same time
- Drag and drop for multiple containers
- Pan and zoom objects while they are still selected
- Select objects using extended key
- Advanced text editor for HTML5 annotations
- RenderedObjectBounds property for calculating real bounds
Barcode
- Perspective correction for PDF417 barcode
- More accurate detection for corrupted barcodes
- Improved detection of small 1D linear barcodes
Formats
- XMP metadata
- Read metadata from Office and vector formats
Web Scanning
- Send and receive user data to scanning service and upload server
- Customization options for scanning service
Stay tuned to see a list of new features and updates to our Medical Imaging SDKs. To read more about this exciting update, see the official press release!