We are once again pleased to announce that LEAD Technologies and multiple LEADTOOLS products are the recipients of several top awards from ComponentSource. This global distributor has been a partner with us since 1996, serving thousands of LEADTOOLS customers throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Australia.

In my previous post, "Solution to 4 Common First-world Problems – Convert and Merge to PDF," I implemented a solution to convert images of documents to text-searchable PDF files. The source images were produced from a document scanner and the camera on my phone. Since that post, I have received some questions on how to improve the human readability of the PDFs that were originally camera images.

Since releasing LEADTOOLS Cloud Services only a few months ago, we have seen a lot of usage from customers as well as some feedback. It's a product we look forward to supporting and improving by making additional LEADTOOLS imaging functionality available in an easy-to-consume Web API. Today marks the first update to LEADTOOLS Cloud Services and are happy to announce a new method endpoint for the service: ConvertBarcodeSplit.

One of the most important aspects of documents and record-keeping is the ability to redact sensitive information. Originally done permanently with blank ink on paper, the need for redaction certainly carried over into document imaging as processes and archives started going paperless. LEADTOOLS has many ways to redact documents, but today we're going to look at an example you might not have thought of before and would be right at home within any ECM or eDiscovery application.

LEADTOOLS released a new product to complement its world-renowned and award-winning line of imaging SDKs: LEADTOOLS Cloud Services. This high-powered and scalable Web API gives developers a hassle-free interface for integrating advanced recognition and document conversion into any application.

This new product provides all the speed, accuracy, and reliability you have come to expect from LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDKs but is neatly packaged into a simple, pay-as-you-go Web API hosted on Microsoft Azure. The Web API is language agnostic, so you can use LEADTOOLS Cloud Services in any programming language that has access to the Internet. The online documentation provides examples and tutorials for .NET, JavaScript, Python, PHP, and Perl. In the following example, we will be demonstrating a simple Node.js application.