Welcome to LEADTOOLS
by LEAD Technologies, Inc.
LEADTOOLS provides the best in imaging toolkits to developers who are working with the latest Microsoft technologies targeting 32 and 64-bit platforms (including 2000, XP and Vista). It includes both Win32 and x64 libraries for C DLL, C++ class libraries, .NET, WCF, Windows Workflow, WPF, AJAX, and Silverlight. ActiveX and COM Interop interfaces are provided as 32 bit.
LEADTOOLS is ideal for developers involved in still frame, multimedia, document, medical, and vector imaging projects, including Internet/Intranet applications. Independent of the specific application requirement – such as scanning, file format support/conversion, compression, image processing, annotation, database support, and multimedia – LEADTOOLS provides the most comprehensive, robust, flexible, and powerful imaging solution available.
This latest version of the LEADTOOLS Imaging Toolkits introduces many new features and is considered one of the fastest and most robust versions of LEADTOOLS ever. The Medical Imaging toolkit offers enhanced extended grayscale support (true 16 bit LUT) and a high level DICOM PACS Framework Module for easily creating DICOM based servers. The Document Imaging toolkit offers a higher level interface to our existing Forms Recognition Engine, TWAIN 2.0 support, the Advantage OCR/OMR Engine, the ability to Auto Zone an image outside of the OCR engine, WCF and Windows Workflow libraries for various imaging related tasks such as OCR, a Virtual Printer Driver to capture the output from any application as EMF, and Document Writer functions to convert EMF to PDF, PDF/A, DOC, HTML, RTF and TXT. Other features include an optimized JPEG/JPEG2000 codec and an image viewer control for Silverlight applications. ActiveX controls and COM Interoperability allow you to rapidly use your existing .NET code and incorporate image compression, file format support, and image processing functionality into VB.6 and VC++ applications.
The Getting Started with LEADTOOLS help file is designed to provide you with:
Information about the LEADTOOLS DLLs, binaries, libraries, header files, import libraries, and classes used to support each LEADTOOLS feature.
Directions to the help file in which to find the documentation that supports each feature.
Directions to sample program source code that demonstrates each feature.
Links to execute sample programs that demonstrate each feature.
Supported Environments:
LEADTOOLS comes in Win32 and x64 editions that support development of software applications for any of the following environments:
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Server and newer
Our toolkits provide C DLL (Unicode ad ANSI), C++ class libraries (Unicode ad ANSI), .NET, WCF, Windows Workflow, WPF, AJAX, and Silverlight interfaces in both Win32 and x64 versions. Active X and COM Interoperability interfaces are provided as 32 bit.