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LEADTOOLS PDF Developer Toolkit
LEADTOOLS PDF provides PDF APIs to read, write, raster-view, and update PDF files on all major platforms. With the PDF toolkit, developers can extract text, images, hyperlinks, and metadata from PDF files. The SDK also provides complete control of pages in existing PDF documents. Conversion to PDF/A documents that are ready for archival can be done in a few lines of code. Additionally, with the included LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer, PDF files can be made web-ready with linearization and compression.
LEADTOOLS PDF includes all features of Imaging, such as 165+ formats, compression, image processing, viewers, TWAIN and WIA scanning, and more. This combination of PDF and imaging features makes the LEADTOOLS PDF an extreme value.
LEADTOOLS Document Developer Toolkit
Develop powerful document-enabled applications with LEADTOOLS Document. Features include PDF viewing, comprehensive image 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 Document is the entry-level product for developing document and document imaging applications with LEADTOOLS. More advanced features including document editing, OCR, forms recognition, and HTML5/JavaScript viewing are available within more advanced toolkits within the Document Family.
LEADTOOLS Document Plus Developer Toolkit
Develop comprehensive document-enabled applications with LEADTOOLS Document Plus – a comprehensive set of libraries with advanced document features, including document processing, conversion, viewing, and manipulation. Catering to a wide range of document formats and use-cases, the LEADTOOLS Document Plus SDK includes all features of the LEADTOOLS Document Developer Toolkit with additional features.
More advanced features, including document editing, OCR, and form recognition, are available within the Document Family’s more advanced toolkits.
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, which includes removing inverted text, borders, hole-punches, and lines, as well as 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.
LEADTOOLS Recognition Developer Toolkit
The LEADTOOLS Recognition SDK is a handpicked collection of LEADTOOLS SDK features designed to build end-to-end OCR applications within enterprise-level document automation solutions that require OCR, MICR, OMR, barcode, forms recognition and processing, PDF, print capture, archival, annotation, and image viewing functionality. This powerful set of tools utilizes LEADTOOLS award-winning image processing technology to intelligently identify document features that can be used to recognize and extract data from any type of scanned or faxed form image.
LEADTOOLS Recognition includes the LEADTOOLS OCR Engine, which powers the text and forms recognition capabilities bundled with this product. Check out the Document Family for more details on the other LEADTOOLS toolkits for developing your next application.
LEADTOOLS Document Suite Developer Toolkit
The LEADTOOLS Document Suite SDK is a comprehensive collection of LEADTOOLS SDK features designed to build end-to-end document solutions that require OCR, MICR, OMR, ICR, barcode, forms recognition and processing, PDF, HTML5/JavaScript Zero-footprint viewing, conversion, print, capture, archival, annotation, and image viewing functionality. This powerful set of tools utilizes LEADTOOLS award-winning image processing technology to intelligently identify document features that can be used to recognize and extract data from any type of scanned or faxed form image.
LEADTOOLS Document Suite includes the LEADTOOLS OCR Engine, which powers the text and forms recognition capabilities bundled with this product. Check out the Document Family for more details on the other LEADTOOLS toolkits to develop your next document application.
LEADTOOLS Medical Developer Toolkit
Develop powerful medical imaging applications with the LEADTOOLS Medical SDK. Features include comprehensive DICOM data set support, 8-16 bit extended grayscale image support, image annotation, specialized extended grayscale image display such as window level and LUT processing, and medical-specific image processing. Other features include lossless JPEG compression, and signed and unsigned image data processing.
LEADTOOLS Medical is the entry-level product to develop medical imaging applications with LEADTOOLS. More advanced features, including HTML/JavaScript viewing, are available within more advanced toolkits within the Medical Family.
LEADTOOLS Medical Suite Developer Toolkit
Develop powerful PACS and medical imaging applications with the LEADTOOLS Medical Suite toolkit. Features include LEADTOOLS Zero-footprint HTML5/JavaScript DICOM Viewer, Medical Web Viewer Framework, Medical 3D, DICOM Multimedia codecs, high and low-level PACS SCP and SCU functions and controls, secure PACS communication, Print to PACS, comprehensive DICOM data set support, DICOM Hanging Protocol, image annotation, extended grayscale image display such as window level and LUT processing, and specialized medical image processing. Other features include lossless JPEG compression, JPIP, and signed and unsigned image data processing.
LEADTOOLS Medical Suite is the premier product for developing medical imaging applications and contains nearly all functionality available within all LEADTOOLS product families.
LEADTOOLS Imaging Developer Toolkit
LEADTOOLS Imaging includes the tools developers need to add powerful imaging technology to applications. With more than 36 years of imaging development expertise, LEADTOOLS Imaging includes 165+ image formats, image compression, image processing, image viewers, imaging common dialogs, 200+ image display effects, TWAIN and WIA image scanning, screen capture, and image printing.
LEADTOOLS Imaging is an entry-level product to develop applications that incorporate LEADTOOLS imaging libraries. Additional features are available in the Imaging, Document, Medical, and Multimedia families.
LEADTOOLS Barcode Developer Toolkit
LEADTOOLS Barcode includes everything developers need to detect, read, and write over 100 different 1D and 2D barcode types such as UPC, EAN, GS1 DataBar, QR Code, PDF417, Data Matrix, and Aztec. By building upon the award-winning LEADTOOLS Imaging features, including 165+ image formats, image compression, image processing, image viewers, imaging common dialogs, 200+ display effects, TWAIN and WIA scanning, screen capture, and printing, LEADTOOLS Barcode is one of the best values on the market for barcode imaging technology.
LEADTOOLS Barcode is the entry level toolkit for developing barcode imaging applications with LEADTOOLS. Additional features, such as document image cleanup and LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN scanning, are available with products in the Document Family.
LEADTOOLS Multimedia Developer Toolkit
LEADTOOLS Multimedia is specifically designed for the development of audio/video applications across a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, defense, broadcast, and security. The Multimedia SDK offers developers a full range of technologies that turn normally complex DirectShow and Media Foundation projects into simple tasks. The integration of core multimedia functionality, such as playback, capture, conversion, and processing into applications, is easier than ever before with LEADTOOLS Multimedia.
LEADTOOLS Multimedia is the base product and starting point for developers creating powerful multimedia applications based on DirectShow and Media Foundation with the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Family. See the Multimedia Product Comparison Chart to see which multimedia features, filters, and codecs are included with the various Multimedia products.
LEADTOOLS Multimedia Suite Developer Toolkit
The LEADTOOLS Multimedia Suite SDK is a comprehensive collection of multimedia development technology that provides developers with everything they need to create enterprise-level multimedia applications for a wide variety of industries, including defense, broadcast, security, and more. By bundling features from the Multimedia SDK, Streaming Module, MPEG-2 Transport components, and Imaging SDK, Multimedia Suite offers a tremendous value for the world-class technology it provides.
Developers have access to all multimedia features, including playback, conversion, capture, DVD, DVR, MPEG-2 Transport Stream with KLV, video conferencing, UDP/TCP/RTSP streaming, and more. Development licenses for most LEADTOOLS codecs, multiplexers, demultiplexers, and DirectShow Filters and Media Foundation Transforms are also included.
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