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LEADTOOLS Edit Developer Toolkit

Develop powerful document editing applications with LEADTOOLS Edit. Features include document viewing and editing, PDF viewing and editing, comprehensive annotation and markup, specialized bitonal image displaying, and image processing. Other features include performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image cleanup, including inverted text, border, hole-punch, and line removal, and scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN and WIA.

LEADTOOLS Edit is the entry-level product to create document editing applications with LEADTOOLS. With the Document Editor control your end-users can view, convert, create, and edit complex documents with features such as text search and replace, spell checker, paragraph styles, fonts and font styles, and much more. More advanced features including OCR, and forms recognition are available within more advanced toolkits within the Document Family.

What's Included in the LEADTOOLS Edit SDK?

LEADTOOLS recognizes speech natively, without the need to send data to a server, converting spoken language into text.

  • Integrate speech-to-text capabilities with CDLL and .NET applications
  • Client-side JavaScript speech recognition support using WebAssembly
  • Save results to all supported document formats
  • Speech recognition built into the LEADTOOLS Document Editor

These more advanced products include all of the technology contained in the LEADTOOLS Edit product and add supplementary and specialized technology.

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Operating systems

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Android
  • iOS

    • Frameworks

  • .NET 6+
  • .NET Framework
  • .NET MAUI
  • Xamarin
  • UWP
  • WinForms
  • C++ Class Library
  • ASP.NET

    • Programming, Scripting, and Markup

  • C#
  • VB
  • XAML
  • C/C++
  • Java
  • Objective-C
  • Swift

    • Order and Pricing Information for LEADTOOLS Edit

    To order or ask questions about licensing:

    Development License Pricing

    Quantity Price Annual Maintenance *  
    1 Dev License $3,250.00 $813.00 Buy
    3 Dev Licenses $7,800.00 $2,439.00 Buy
    5 Dev Licenses $12,200.00 $4,065.00 Buy
    10 Dev Licenses $22,750.00 $8,130.00 Buy

    **Note: Deployment licenses required to deploy any LEAD SDK redistributable file

    A development license is required for each programmer using the SDK. Discounts apply for multiple developers.

    A development license includes free technical support via email and chat. Premium support via telephone is available on a per-case basis or included with an Annual Maintenance plan.

    * Annual maintenance is recommended, but optional

    **Deployment License: A license is also required to deploy any LEAD SDK redistributable files. Pricing for deployment licenses varies based on the deployment model. To obtain a deployment license quotation, contact LEAD’s sales department.

    Licensing Information for LEADTOOLS Edit

    Flexible Licensing - LEAD offers several license models to customers designed to fit the needs of internal development projects as well as commercial software. We understand that our standard license terms may not work for every customer's situation. Therefore, we encourage prospective customers to contact us directly to discuss your unique licensing requirements. We have been licensing software for over 34 years and realize that software licensing needs to be sensible and easy to manage. Our objective is to work with every customer to ensure they can add value to their product by leveraging our technology.

    For more information visit our licensing page or schedule a session with our licensing experts.