LEADTOOLS Version 16.5 adds several features to LEADTOOLS that are focused on providing solutions to developers in the ECM, EMR, document, medical, and multimedia imaging communities.
New product additions to the LEADTOOLS Product Line
- LEADTOOLS DVR Module
- LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
- LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR SDK
- LEADTOOLS Recognition SDK
- LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Enterprise Edition
- LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Module
Major new features within the existing LEADTOOLS Product Line
- New supported DVR formats for Capture, Convert, and Play
- Updated demos
- Updated documentation for LEAD H.263 Encoder to explain how the ITU-T Recommendation H.263 is implemented
- Updated documentation to describe which profiles LEAD H264 supports
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Feature Enhancements to Capture:
- New DVRSource interface
- Capture can now capture files larger than 4GB
- Configurable DVR Buffer storage folders and files using the new DVRSink interface
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New Filters and Codecs
- LEAD Dynamic Rate Control Filter
- LEAD Windows Media Reader
- LEAD H.264 Transcoder
- LEAD AAC Transcoder
- LEAD DVR Source—Included in the DVR and MPEG2 Transport Module
- LEAD DVR Sink—Included in the DVR and MPEG2 Transport Module
- WCF for Imaging and OCR
- Windows WF Activities for Imaging and OCR
- Silverlight Image Viewer Control
- Enhanced Grayscale Image Data Support
- Updated and improved JPEG and JPEG 2000 support
- Image Segmentation technology
- Support for TWAIN 2.0
- Data DVD and CD creation
- More image file formats
LEADTOOLS DVR Module
The LEADTOOLS DVR Module allows developers to pause, rewind, and fast-forward live streams.
Additionally, developers can copy or convert the buffer to another format or DVD.
The DVR module supports MPEG-2 Program streams and MPEG-2 Transport stream support is also available.
LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK is a new addition to the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging product line.
LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging is a complete medical imaging and PACS client/server SDK.
Medical imaging features include full DICOM data set support, full DICOM communication and security,
and features support for 8-16 bit grayscale image processing and display with overlays, annotations, window leveling, and LUT processing.
For PACS client/server development, LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging introduces the new LEADTOOLS DICOM PACS Framework SDK.
The framework's modular design enables developers to quickly implement DICOM services plug-ins, freeing up time to work on non-DICOM
portions of the application such as the user interface. Several source code sample implementations such as Store, Find, Query/Retrieve, Modality Worklist,
and Storage Commit are included.
LEADTOOLS Recognition and Document Imaging Enterprise SDKs
The LEADTOOLS Recognition and LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Enterprise SDKs are new products introduced in the version 16.5 Document Imaging product line.
They are cost saving bundles of various LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products and features.
LEADTOOLS Recognition includes a full range of recognition technologies by bundling LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK, Advantage version OCR Module,
PDF OCR Plug-in, Forms Recognition Module, and 1D and 2D Barcode Modules.
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Enterprise includes a full range of recognition technologies plus additional PDF and document capture and conversion
technologies by bundling LEADTOOLS Recognition, Raster PDF Read and Write Modules, and LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Module.
New OCR Modules
This release adds LEADTOOLS Advantage and Asian OCR modules.
They are ideal for developers who need to recognize full page and zone based machine print text.
All LEADTOOLS OCR modules are multithread safe for 32 and 64-bit development.
Supported output formats include PDF, PDF/A, DOC, HTML, RTF, and TXT.
Additionally, these new modules leverage the LEADTOOLS common development interface.
By using this common interface, developers can easily change the underlying OCR engine with one line of code, if the requirements of an application change.
Forms Recognition Module Update
LEADTOOLS Form Recognition Module has been optimized and is now 50% faster than what was previously available.
Additionally, version 16.5 introduces a new high-level forms recognition and processing interface.
The new interface increases the ease of use and decreases the time required to develop forms recognition and processing applications.
New Virtual Printer Module
The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Module is a new module in version 16.5.
The module includes a programmable virtual printer driver and a collection of document writers.
With the virtual printer driver, developers can capture and convert output from any application to EMF.
Also included with this module are several document writers to convert EMF to popular document formats such as PDF, PDF/A, Word Doc, HTML, RTF, and TXT.
New WCF Services for Imaging and OCR
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a development interface targeted to scalable enterprise development and is now available in the Document and Medical Imaging product lines.
LEADTOOLS WCF services include support to load, save, and convert over 150 image formats, image processing, document image cleanup, OCR, and barcode detection, reading and writing.
LEADTOOLS WCF services may be accessed via several protocols, including HTTP, TCP, IPC, and MSMQ.
Depending on how you want to access the services, they may be hosted in IIS, Windows Activation Service, or any .NET managed application process, including console, WinForms,
WPF, and Windows service applications.
New Windows WF Activities for Imaging and OCR
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) activities for process driven development are a new develop interface added to products in the Document and Medical Imaging product lines.
LEADTOOLS Windows WF activities include support to load, save and convert over 150 image formats, TWAIN and WIA scanning, image processing, document image cleanup, OCR,
and barcode detection, reading and writing. These activities can be hosted in any .NET managed application domain or any third-party application framework that supports
Windows WF such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
New Silverlight Image Viewer Control
The new LEADTOOLS Silverlight Image Viewer control for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development can load and display all Silverlight supported image formats and can be easily
extended to display any of the over 150 image formats supported by LEADTOOLS, including JPEG 2000, JBIG, DICOM, and PDF.
The viewer features several user interactive modes, including pan, scale, center at, zoom to, and customizable magnify glass.
Additionally, images can be zoomed and displayed using several different size modes such as normal, fit, fit width, and stretch.
To make the navigation of large or zoomed images easier, the viewer includes a pan window.
Because the LEADTOOLS Silverlight Image Viewer is designed with extensibility in mind, the viewer can be effortlessly extended with additional features. By leveraging LEADTOOLS WCF services, document image cleanup, image processing, and barcode creation are just some of the features that can be seamlessly incorporated into applications that use the LEADTOOLS Silverlight Image Viewer.
LEADTOOLS includes sample Silverlight projects to demonstrate all of the viewer's capabilities, plus how to extend the viewer to display over 150 image formats supported by LEADTOOLS.
Grayscale Image Data Support
LEADTOOLS version 16.5 adds to its existing comprehensive support of extended grayscale data by including true 16-bit LUT support, as well as support for hardware window leveling.
JPEG and JPEG 2000 Enhancements
JPEG 2000 and lossless JPEG compression/decompression support within the LEADTOOLS product line has been optimized.
In version 16.5, the LEADTOOLS JPEG 2000 decoder is 300% faster for lossy images and 10% faster for lossless images.
The lossless JPEG decoder is 300% faster for 24-bit color images and up to 50% faster for 8, 12 and 16-bit grayscale images.
New Image Segmentation Function
AutoZone is a new image processing function in version 16.5 that detects different zone types within mixed raster content images.
With AutoZone, the image can automatically be broken up into text and image zones for additional processing, zone specific compression, or OCR.
New TWAIN 2.0 Driver Support
LEAD continues to lead the industry by expanding LEADTOOLS all-inclusive TWAIN support to include
32 and 64-bit binaries 2.0 drivers.
New Data DVD and CD Support
LEADTOOLS version 16.5 supports the creation and burning of data CDs, DVDs, and ISOs, using .NET
or COM.
New Image Format Support
LEADTOOLS version 16.5 adds support for the Vista and XP thumbnail (TDB) and Microsoft Access Report Snapshot (SNP) formats, adding to the over 150 formats supported by LEADTOOLS imaging SDKs.
With the release of LEADTOOLS version 16.5, LEAD reinforces its position as the world leading developer of imaging and imaging related SDKs. LEAD is dedicated to being the only choice for developers who want a comprehensive and time-tested imaging SDK that stays at the forefront of new imaging technologies and development paradigms.