LEADTOOLS Version Change Summary

Assembly Changes: 19 to 20

For details of the changes, refer to the Version Change Summary: v19 to v20 page for the specific assembly.

Assembly Changes: 18 to 19

For details of the changes, refer to the 'Version Changes' page for the specific assembly.

Version 18 changes

Enhancements to Existing File Formats

LEADTOOLS Changes from Version 17.5 to Version 18


Android, iOS / macOS, and .NET WinForms support - LEADTOOLS V18 adds Android support to its toolkits through the new LEADTOOLS Android SDK. In addition, iOS / macOS support for its toolkits has been added through the new LEADTOOLS iOS / macOS SDK; and .NET WinForms support has been added through the new LEADTOOLS .NET WinForms SDK. These toolkits provide everything a developer needs to create imaging-enabled Android, iOS / macOS, or .NET WinForms applications.

File Formats

Enhancements to Existing File Formats

LEADTOOLS Changes from Version 17 to Version 17.5

LEADTOOLS V17.5 includes the new LEADTOOLS WinRT SDK. The LEADTOOLS WinRT SDK contains everything a developer needs to create imaging-enabled Windows Store applications. With the toolkit, developers can load, convert and save to and from more than 100 image formats, and use more than 200 advanced image processing functions.

LEADTOOLS V17.5 includes the new LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK. The LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK is a framework for creating "cloud" applications. Cloud applications perform distributed processing of tasks over a network. The server portion of the framework handles the submission, queuing and identification of tasks that are to be performed by one or more separate worker machines. Each worker machine polls the server and then is assigned a job to perform. When the work is completed, the worker machine notifies the server and the queue is updated. The LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK comes with two demo implementations, one for converting raster images to PDF documents using OCR and one for transcoding multimedia files.

LEADTOOLS V17.5 includes new SharePoint integration capabilities. LEADTOOLS SharePoint integrates with other LEADTOOLS features such as OCR, Barcode, File Format Conversion and allows images to be loaded and saved directly in SharePoint. Additionally, it supports SharePoint lists and features Live capture and improved speed for Windows 7 Barcode libraries.

File Formats

#### Vector File Support - ArcInfo Interchange File Format (E00) - Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) - Compressed Windows Metafile Format (WMZ) - Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX) - DGN (DGN) - DRaWing (DRW) - DWF Format (DWF) - Autodesk DWF XPS (DWFX) - DWG Format (DWG) - ESRI Shape (SHP) - Gerber Format (GBR) - LEADTOOLS Vector Dump Format (VEC) - Macintosh Pict Format (PCT) - MapInfo Interchange File Format (MIF) - NAPLPS Format (NAP) - PLT (PLT) - Printer Command Language (PCL) - Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - Windows Metafile Format (WMF) - WordPerfect Format (WPG)

Multimedia

Document

Medical

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 OCR Module - LEAD 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 development.

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 enhancements 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 LEADTOOLS OCR Module - LEAD 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 support 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 assemblies contain 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:

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