New to LEADTOOLS? We've added some specific demos to GitHub to make it easier for you get started using our SDKs. We're going to highlight some of these in various blog posts over the next few weeks. First up, our Barcode demo for .NET. Powered by LEADTOOLS machine learning engine, the LEADTOOLS Barcode libraries provide a fast, robust, and easy-to-use API to detect, read, and write 1D and 2D barcodes.

The other day, I received a PDF that was almost 50 pages long. After I received the PDF, it turns out that I only needed to keep 4 of those pages on file. Using the LEADTOOLS PDF SDK, I was able to add PDF extraction libraries and extract those 4 pages. This only took 10 lines of code to create while other APIs and libraries can take up to 40 lines of complex code.

Organizations all over the world are quickly adapting to their employees working remotely right now. Many programmers are hurrying to develop solutions to help keep teams working and exchanging information in effective new ways. Luckily, LEADTOOLS can help. LEAD is going on 30 years of providing developers with the code they need to hit the ground running and now is no exception.

What better way to start off a new decade than with partner recognition of LEAD's success within the marketplace? We are excited to announce that LEAD Technologies has, once again, received both top product and top publisher awards from ComponentSource. Partnered with LEAD since 1996, ComponentSource serves thousands of LEADTOOLS customers everywhere outside of North America. The awards given out by ComponentSource are based on sales from the previous year. This year, LEAD earned a spot in the top 25 for publishers and our Document Imaging SDK was found to be a top 100 product.

Publisher Award

• LEAD Technologies – Top 25 Publisher

Product Award

• LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK – Top 100 Product

LEADTOOLS will be presenting at the Solutions Showcase at AIIM this year. This will be the second year in a row that we have had the opportunity to present and demonstrate specific LEADTOOLS functionalities. With Version 21 on its way, we want to show off one of the newest additions to the SDK.

This showcase will focus on showing how to automatically redact values found by leveraging machine vision and key-value extraction. One goal we have with this feature is to show attendees how it can help transition offices to a paperless office and smooth out their day-to-day document needs. Powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms and the patented LEADTOOLS OCR Engine, this automatic redaction will work on all types of input documents, meaning there is no task this feature won’t be able to handle.