LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce the release of LEADTOOLS Version 17.5. This exciting new version includes many useful enhancements to our existing products, as well as several new products and innovative technologies to assist you in your development efforts. Major additions include a new framework for creating applications for the Cloud, new PDF and Document Readers, Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) support, new high level Barcode programming interface with support for Silverlight and Windows Phone, and a retooled Advantage OCR Engine. Additional new features and enhancements include speed improvements for multimedia codecs and image processing functions, new tools for 2D and 3D medical image viewing, new multimedia streaming filters and additional file formats. This new version is especially suitable for developers in the document, medical and multimedia imaging communities who are looking for advanced imaging features and tools for rapid development with the stability, performance and support LEADTOOLS customers have come to expect.
LEADTOOLS now includes comprehensive PDF reading and viewing with advanced capabilities such as support for hyperlinks, bookmarks and metadata, and the extraction of text. Developers can take advantage of these properties to create dynamic document viewing and editing applications comparable to Adobe Acrobatฎ and Adobe Distillerฎ.
The LEADTOOLS Document Readers allow reading images, thumbnails, text and metadata from any supported document format using a uniform set of methods and properties, regardless of the document type. The high level LEADTOOLS Document Readers interface can be used to easily create feature-rich document viewing applications with unlimited zoom, smooth scrolling, thumbnails, metadata and text search without the need to know any specifics about the format you are using.
LEADTOOLS Barcode functionality has been expanded with a new set of libraries for Silverlight and Windows Phone. This addition makes it easier for developers creating web and mobile applications to implement barcode features which previously required the use of an external server via WCF Services. Now Silverlight developers empowered by LEADTOOLS can develop robust and compelling barcode applications that run natively on their respective platforms.
In addition to the new platforms, LEADTOOLS boasts a redesigned Barcode .NET interface. This high level and programmer friendly interface can read all barcodes in an image with a single function call. This intuitive new interface also handles the complexities of the extensive collection of barcode symbologies LEADTOOLS supports.
LEAD Technologies has a rich history of providing the fastest imaging development tools and staying ahead of the latest technology trends. Consequently, LEAD is pleased to introduce the all new LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK. This ground-breaking framework can be used for creating cloud-based, distributed computing applications with unlimited potential for speed and platform independence.
Utilising their own existing network of servers and worker machines, developers can easily create any kind of distributed, grid or parallel computing application such as OCR, Forms Recognition and Processing, Barcode Recognition, Audio/Video conversion and encoding, web crawlers, distributed graphics rendering and more. By developing a LEADTOOLS cloud, processor intensive and time consuming tasks can be handled by your network of worker machines in a fraction of the time it would normally take.
With the LEADTOOLS Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) SDK technology, application developers can easily encapsulate HL7's vendor independent Context Management Architecture standards. Context Management, popular among PACS and medical records systems, is a dynamic computer process that uses "subjects of interest" in one application, to point to data in separate systems containing the same subject. The LEADTOOLS CCOW SDK provides high level .NET componenets to quickly and easily develop robust Contenxt Managment solutions that tie together critical information scattered across multiple systems.
This collection of powerful multimedia products from LEAD Technologies provides everything a developer needs to create enterprise level multimedia applications, bundling features from the Multimedia SDK, DVD Module, Video Streaming Module, MPEG-2 Transport Module, Imaging Pro SDK and LEADTOOLS Cloud SDK.
With the release of LEADTOOLS Version 17.5, LEAD reinforces its position as the world leading developer of imaging and imaging related SDKs. LEAD is dedicated to being the only choice for developers who want a comprehensive and time-tested imaging SDK that stays at the forefront of new imaging technologies and development paradigms.
LEADTOOLS Version 17.0 adds many new features to LEADTOOLS that are focused on providing solutions to developers in the ECM, EMR, document, medical and multimedia imaging communities.
Optimised internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of
image handling and processing.
New Silverlight viewers. Image viewer,
image list, pan window, and magnifying glass.
New Silverlight codecs.
Load, save and convert more than 100 formats and subformats in Silverlight
clients.
New Silverlight image processing functions. Process images on
Silverlight clients with more than 130 advanced image processing functions.
New Silverlight annotations. Load, save, create and edit image annotations
(markups) in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight pixel shaders. Apply
visual effects in Silverlight clients.
Load PowerPoint, XLS and XLSX files
as images.
Save linearised PDF and PDF/A files.
Export LEADTOOLS
annotations as PDF documents.
Create PDF bookmarks.
New Arabic OCR
module. Convert images of Arabic text into text, DOC, PDF and more.
Improved Asian OCR engine recognition results.
New text orientation
options to recognise vertical, left rotated and right rotated text.
New
DOCX and XLSX output for OCR and Document Writers.
Improved table
detection and enhanced font detection in the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine.
Improved accuracy and speed of the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine.
Expanded constrained ICR support to be included with the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR
engine.
New Forms Recognition and Processing applications with project
source code to define master forms, and to recognise and process forms.
Optimised internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of
image handling and processing.
New Silverlight DICOM dataset support.
Create, load, view, edit and save DICOM datasets in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight viewers. Image viewer, image list, pan window, and magnifying
glass.
New Silverlight codecs. Load, save and convert more than 100
formats and subformats in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight image
processing functions. Process images on Silverlight clients with more than 130
advanced image processing functions.
New Silverlight annotations. Load,
save, create and edit image annotations (markups) in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight pixel shaders. Apply visual effects in Silverlight clients.
New Medical 3D module. Construct and view a 3-dimensional volume from a set of
homogenous 2-dimensional medical images. 3D rendering can be stand alone or
hosted in the high-level LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer control to leverage the
built-in tools and automation provided by the viewer control.
New support
included with the LEADTOOLS PACS Framework:
o New DICOM Router components.
o New DICOM Work List components.
o New DICOM High-Level Storage, Query
and Retrieve Services.
Updates to the LEADTOOLS PACS Workstation Framework
New Print to PACS application with project source code.
Updates to
layout control in the LEADTOOLS Medical Viewer.
New image processing
functions:
o Tissue equalisation function.
o Anisotropic diffusion
function.
o Auto segement image processing function.
o Mean shift image
processing filter.
New DICOM dataset editor utility.
Import and
export DICOM to XML to easily edit and compare DICOM datasets.
Up to date
DICOM IOD tables.
New support for the Analyse medical file format.
Optimised internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of
image handling and processing.
.NET 4.0 binaries.
New Visual Studio
2010 projects for all .NET and Silverlight sample applications.
Enhanced
WPF viewer controls.
WPF Pixel Shaders.
Added multi-monitor support
to screen capture.
Load PowerPoint (.ppt) files as an image.
Load
Word Document (.doc) files as an image.
Load Excel (.xls) files as an
image.
Added folder watch feature to the LEADTOOLS Thumbnail Browser so
that the Thumbnail Browser can automatically update when files in the folder are
modified, added or deleted.
New 64 bit binaries for capture, conversion and playback, filters and
codecs such as H264, MPEG-4 and MPEG-2.
New .NET class library for
multimedia capture, conversion and playback.
New support to capture video
from HD digital tuners.
New LEAD RTSP source filter. Play RTSP streams in
the following formats: H.264 video, JPEG video and AAC audio.
LEAD MPEG-2
Transport UDP Source accepts raw RTP streams.
New Product Additions and
Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite
LEADTOOLS Medical 3D Module
LEADTOOLS Arabic OCR Module
LEADTOOLS
Document Imaging Enterprise is now LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite.