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Version 17 changes

Version 16.5 changes

Version 16 changes

Version 15 changes

Version 14.5 changes

Version 14 changes

LEADTOOLS Changes from Version 16.5 to Version 17

LEADTOOLS V17 products include a completely new native Silverlight development interface. This new LEADTOOLS Silverlight offering will allow developers to extend LEADTOOLS advanced imaging functionality into their Silverlight applications for cross platform deployment.

LEADTOOLS V17 products also include a version of the Silverlight SDK for Windows Phone development allowing developers to extend LEADTOOLS advanced imaging functionality into applications for Windows Phone 7

In addition to the new Silverlight classes, LEADTOOLS version 17 will have these additional new features and more:

General

File Formats

Barcode Updates

Support for Code 128 A,B,C subtypes has been added.

Annotation Updates

Support for RTF and Media objects has been added to the WPF Annotations.

Medical Viewer Updates

Support 3D volume rendering, set the layout with rectangular cells, host child Win Form controls, and host cells by other Win Form controls.

Medical 3D Support

Generate 3D volumes from CT and MRI stacks. Render volumes with MIP, SSD, and VRT. Generate MPR, single and double oblique cut planes, and MIP slabs.

DICOM Support

DICOM files with multi-language strings are now supported

DICOM Media burning support has been added

DICOM Communication Support

IPV6 addresses are now supported for DICOM Communications

DICOM Router Components

New add-in for the LEADTOOLS PACS Framework to route images based on user-defined business rules to one or more PACS.

DICOM Work List Components

New LEADTOOLS PACS Framework add-ins for Modality Work List (MWL), Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) servers and clients.

DICOM High-Level Storage, Query and Retrieve Services

New LEADTOOLS PACS Framework add-ins for DICOM Storage, Query and Retrieve servers and clients.

New Print to PACS Application with Source Code.

Captures image data from Printer Driver, TWAIN, WIA, File, or Screen Capture and then pushes it to a PACS using C-STORE. Has options to get the required metadata from manual entry, Modality WorkList or PACS.

New PDF Enhancements

PDF support will be enhanced with PDF and PDF/A linearization, PDF annotation creation, multi-threaded application support, new image compression support, and PDF bookmark creation.

PDF support is now multi-thread safe, and the PDF runtime has been condensed into a single runtime file.

Support for PDF v1.6 has been added.

Support for auto-detecting Bits Per Pixel during PDF load has been added.

Functions for getting raster information from a PDF file have been added.

Enhanced Asian OCR

Improved support for Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese character sets.

Arabic OCR

Convert images of Arabic text to PDF, Doc, and more.

OCR Enhancements

New text orientation options, XLS output, advanced table detection, and improved the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine with enhanced font detection to include bold, italic, mono and proportional spacing, and improved accuracy and speed.

New .NET Development Interface for Multimedia

All of the same great and robust features of Multimedia toolkit, but designed and built specifically for .NET.

Multimedia for x64

Multimedia binaries for native 64 bit applications.

HD Digital Tuner

Capture from High-Definition (HD) digital devices in real-time.

LEADTOOLS Changes from Version 16 to Version 16.5

This remaster of the LEADTOOLS family of imaging toolkits from version 16 to version 16.5 is packed with updates and new features.

LEADTOOLS is now built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and requires the VS 2008 C/C++ runtime. All Visual Studio example projects included with LEADTOOLS are for VS 2008. If you require VS 2005 example projects, please contact Tech Support.

This latest release offers a streamlined Medical Imaging toolkit, with enhanced Medical Viewer controls, updated DICOM support and a new DICOM PACS Framework for client and server developement.

Version 16.5 simplifies distributed and automated enterprise application development with the addition of Windows Communication Foundation components and Windows Workflow activities.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging now offers Document Writers to convert any EMF file to searchable, text-based document formats including PDF.

LEADTOOLS also includes a programmable Virtual Printer Driver to allow capture of data by printing from any Windows application to any of more than 150 supported image formats.

This release of LEADTOOLS provides the first version of the LEADTOOLS Image Viewer Control for Silverlight3 development.

LEADTOOLS 16.5 also includes new Media Writer classes for burning DVDs and CDs.

Version 16.5 offers enhanced Twain support, automatic zone detection, High Level Forms recognition, as well as additions and enhancemnets to supported file formats.

The restriction on using portions of LEADTOOLS inside ASP.NET applications has been removed starting with LEADTOOLS 16.5. LEADTOOLS assemblies are not required to be in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) in order for certain features to work (Including: Loading an image while resizing it and multi-threaded auto-zoning using the Advantage OCR engine).

This release offers updated and improved documentation, new tutorials and much more.

Changes Made to Existing Class Libraries

File Formats

Leadtools.Dicom

Leadtools.Dicom has been updated to provide upport for the latest DICOM Standard, including:

Leadtools.MedicalViewer

New Features

The LEADTOOLS Barcode support DLLs have been converted to .NET assemblies. The following table lists the old and the new DLL names required. For more information, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Old DLL Name New Assembly Name
Ltbar4u.dll Leadtools.Barcode.OneD.dll
Ltbar6ru.dll Leadtools.Barcode.PdfRead.dll
Ltbar6wu.dll Leadtools.Barcode.PdfWrite.dll
Ltbar7ru.dll Leadtools.Barcode.DatamatrixRead.dll
Ltbar7w.dll Leadtools.Barcode.DatamatrixWrite.dll
Ltbar8ru.dll Leadtools.Barcode.QrRead.dll
Ltbar8wu.dll Leadtools.Barcode.QrWrite.dll
Ltbar4x.dll Leadtools.Barcode.OneD.dll
Ltbar6rx.dll Leadtools.Barcode.PdfRead.dll
Ltbar6wx.dll Leadtools.Barcode.PdfWrite.dll
Ltbar7rx.dll Leadtools.Barcode.DatamatrixRead.dll
Ltbar7wx.dll Leadtools.Barcode.DatamatrixWrite.dll
Ltbar8rx.dll Leadtools.Barcode.QrRead.dll

LEADTOOLS Changes from Version 15 to Version 16

This remaster of the LEADTOOLS family of imaging toolkits from version 15 to version 16 is packed with updates and new features. This release offers improved documentation, new tutorials and much more.

Support for the following LEADTOOLS image file formats has been enhanced:

Raster

Image Processing

Support for image processing has been enhanced with the addition of the following classes:

New Features

Leadtools.Jpip – The LEADTOOLS JPIP module comprises high level components that developers can easily plug into enterprise client/server applications, allowing them to immediately start streaming high-resolution images under low HTTP bandwidth connections.

Leadtools.Wia – The LEADTOOLS Windows Imaging Architecture (WIA) .Net provides a powerful set of functions spanning the full spectrum of digital imaging, including in-depth support for image acquisition from a wide variety of hardware devices. This toolkit is included with LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging products.

Leadtools.Windows.Annotations – The LEADTOOLS Windows Annotations .Net includes properties, methods and events for displaying and rendering WPF annotations.

Leadtools.Forms - The LEADTOOLS Forms .Net includes properties, methods and events for implementing\manipulating forms recognition and processing support, including optical character and barcode recognition.

Leadtools.Forms.Ocr - The LEADTOOLS Forms OCR .Net includes properties, methods and events to quickly and easily add document optical character recognition (OCR) technology to software applications.

Leadtools.Windows.Media.Transitions - The LEADTOOLS Transitions .Net includes properties, methods and events for displaying and rendering WPF slide transition effects.

Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Ocr - The LEADTOOLS Forms .Net includes properties, methods and events to quickly and easily add optical character recognition support into forms recognition software applications.

Medical Imaging

Leadtools.Dicom has been updated to provide support for the latest DICOM Standard, including:

Over 30 functions have been added to the .NET DICOM toolkit to allow users a simpler, more straightforward, .NET-like way of working with DICOM data sets and DICOM sequences.

DICOM IOD tables and context mapping tables are now loaded on demand instead of at startup. The tables can optionally be not loaded at all, or loaded partially.

DICOM Communications support has been enhanced by new functions to customize socket creation options.

Both ANSI and UNICODE DICOM DLLs are now provided.

Two new demos have been added, one for Dicom MWL and another for Dicom Waveforms.

Medical Image Viewer Control Enhancements

The Medical Image Viewer Control now includes capabilities to:

Scaling

Animation Support

Window Leveling

Mouse Support

Tag Support

Annotation and Tool Support

Region Support

Annotation Container Support

Calibration Support

Callbacks

Deprecated Assemblies

Assembly Notes
Leadtools.Document Replaced with the Leadtools.Forms.Ocr assembly

Leadtools Changes from Version 14.5 to Version 15

This remaster of the LEADTOOLS family of imaging toolkits from version 14.5 to version 15 is packed with more updates and new features. This release offers new AJAX-enabled controls for developing interactive web applications, support for VB6 developers who want to take advantage of the LEADTOOLS V15 .NET Class Library, support for JPEG 2000 Part 2, improved documentation, new tutorials and much more.

New Features

Changes Made to Existing Class Libraries

Removed Assemblies

Assembly Notes
Leadtools.Kernel Merged into the Leadtools assembly
Leadtools.Kernel.Codecs Merged into the Leadtools.Codecs assembly
Leadtools.Kernel.Codecs.Interfaces Merged into the Leadtools.Codecs assembly
Leadtools.Ocr Renamed into Leadtools.Document
Leadtools.Kernel.Ocr Merged into Leadtools.Document

Leadtools Changes from Version 14 to Version 14.5

Version 14.5 of the LEADTOOLS API has changed from Version 14.0 as follows:

Leadtools Changes from Version 13 to Version 14

Version 14.0 of the LEADTOOLS for .NET Class Library is a complete re-write from Version 13.0. The newly supported features include the following:

Topics

Leadtools Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Annotations Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Barcode Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Codecs Assembly Changes
Leadtools.ColorConversion Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Dicom.AddIn Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Dicom.Annotations Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Topics.Dicom.Common Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Dicom.Scu Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Dicom.Server.Admin Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Dicom Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.Auto Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.DocumentWriters Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.Ocr Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.Processing Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Barcode Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Ocr Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms.Recognition Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Forms Assembly Changes
Leadtools.ImageOptimization Assembly Changes.
Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Core Assembly Changes
Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Effects Assembly Changes
Leadtools.ImageProcessing.SpecialEffects Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Jpeg2000 Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Jpip.Client Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Jpip.Client.WinForms Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Jpip.Server Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Jpip Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Logging Assembly Changes
Leadtools.MediaWriter Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Logging.Medical Assembly Changes
Leadtools.MedicalViewer Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Medical.DataAccessLayer Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Logging.Medical Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Media.DataAccessLayer Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Storage.DataAccessLayer Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Worklist.DataAccessLayer Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Workstation Assembly Version Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Workstation.Client Assembly Version Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Workstation.DataAccessLayer Assembly Version Changes
Leadtools.Medical.Workstation.Loader Assembly Version Changes
Leadtools.Mrc Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Pdf Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Printer Assembly Changes
Leadtools.ScreenCapture Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.DataContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Forms.DataContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Forms.ServiceContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.ImageProcessing.DataContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.ImageProcessing.ServiceContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Raster.DataContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Raster.FaultContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Raster.ServiceContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Barcode.DataContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Services.Barcode.ServiceContracts Assembly Changes
Leadtools.SpecialEffects Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Twain Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Web Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Wia Assembly
Leadtools.Windows.Annotations Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Windows.Controls
Leadtools.Windows.Media.TransitionBase Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Windows.Media.Transitions Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Windows.Media Assembly Changes
Leadtools.WinForms.CommonDialogs.Color Assembly Changes
Leadtools.WinForms.CommonDialogs.File Assembly Changes
Leadtools.WinForms Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Workflow.Barcode Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Workflow.ImageProcessing Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Workflow.Ocr Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Workflow.Raster Assembly Changes
Leadtools.Workflow.Scan Assembly Changes