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Unlocking Special LEAD Features

LEAD offers a variety of features, such as Document support, Medical support, Vector support, etc., which are only available in certain toolkits and are locked. To use these features you must:

For example, if you have purchased the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging toolkit:

The following namespaces require purchase and must have support unlocked:
Leadtools.Annotations (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Barcode (requires a Barcode add-on module)
Leadtools.Dicom.* (requires a Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Forms (requires a LEADTOOLS Forms Module)
Leadtools.Forms.Auto (requires a LEADTOOLS Forms Module)
Leadtools.Forms.DocumentWriters (requires a Document/Medical toolkit and OCR Module or Virtual Printer Module)
Leadtools.Forms.Ocr.* (requires a Document/Medical toolkit and OCR Module)
Leadtools.Forms.Processing (requires a LEADTOOLS Forms Module)
Leadtools.Forms.Recognition (requires a LEADTOOLS Forms Module)
Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Barcode (requires a LEADTOOLS Forms Module and Barcode Module)
Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Ocr (requires a LEADTOOLS Forms Module and OCR Module)
Leadtools.Jpeg2000 (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.MedicalViewer (requires a Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Jpip.* (requires a LEADTOOLS JPIP Module) Leadtools.Logging.* (requires a Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.MediaWriter (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Medical.* (requires a Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Mrc (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Multimedia (requires a Multimedia toolkit)
Leadtools.Pdf (requires a PDF Plug-in)
Leadtools.Printer (requires a Document/Medical toolkit and Virtual Printer Module)
Leadtools.Services.* (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Windows.Annotations (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Windows.Controls (Silverlight version requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Windows.Media.* (Silverlight version requires a Document/Medical toolkit)
Leadtools.Workflow.* (requires a Document/Medical toolkit)

Refer to the RasterSupportType enumeration for a list of specific features that can be unlocked.
For information on products and the features available in each product, refer to Product Features, or for information on licensing, refer to http://www.leadtools.com/help/leadtools/v17/licensing/.

To determine if a certain feature is locked, call the RasterSupport.IsLocked method.

WCF Support

Unlocking support for optional features, such as LEADTOOLS Document/Medical capabilities, is accomplished using the folowing configuration files:

Each configuration file contains a type of feature and its value. You need to fill this value with your key to unlock that special feature. For example Leadtools.Services.Raster.ServiceImplementations.dll.config contains the following section:

<setting name = "AbcKey" serializeAs="String">

<value>YourKey</value>