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Document Imaging

Develop powerful document imaging applications with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging. Features include PDF viewing and editing, comprehensive image annotating, specialised bitonal image displaying, and image processing. Other features include performance and memory optimisations for bitonal images, document image cleanup, including inverted text, border, hole-punch, and line removal, and scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN and WIA.

level product for developing document imaging applications with LEADTOOLS. More advanced features including OCR, forms recognition, and HTML5/JavaScript viewing are available within more advanced toolkits and add-on modules within the Document Imaging Family.

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What’s Included in the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK?

Documents – Create, Load, Save, View, Edit, Convert

  • Documents SDK
  • Document Viewer
  • Document Converter
  • Document Writers

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PDF

  • View and Convert PDF Documents as Vector with SVG
  • Merge, Split, Convert, Linearize, and Distill PDF files
  • Read and Extract text, bookmarks, hyperlinks, metadata, and more from PDF
  • Convert images such as JPEG or TIFF to searchable, text-based PDF
  • Convert images such as JPEG or TIFF to image-based PDF
  • Convert PDF to an image format such as JPEG or TIFF
  • Optimise PDF documents with LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer
  • Capture print jobs and convert to PDF from any application
  • Compress image-based PDF files

LEAD also offers a value-oriented, standalone PDF imaging toolkit with the LEADTOOLS PDF Pro SDK. This product includes everything developers need to read, write, view (as raster), and edit PDF files with advanced capabilities such as the extraction of text, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and metadata as well as updating, splitting, and merging pages from existing PDF documents. It excludes vector display and conversion, which is only available in the document and medical imaging product families.

Image Load, Save, Conversion, and Compression

  • Load, save, and convert more than 150 raster image formats, including:
  • Industry-standard and proprietary compression and decompression including:
    • JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XR, JBIG & JBIG2, CCITT, CCITT G3 and CCITT G4, ABIC, NITF, LZW, RLE and PackBits, ZIPLIB, LEAD CMP, LEAD CMW, LEAD ABC
  • Load, edit, save, and convert vector file formats
  • Create document formats including searchable PDF, XPS, and DOCX
  • Load, save, and convert both raster image and searchable text PDF files
  • Load, save, and modify image metadata
  • SVG creation and conversion
  • EMF creation and conversion
  • Archive files and data to CD, DVD, and ISO files
  • JPIP
  • High-level image compression optimiser to automatically optimise bit depth and compression settings
  • Imaging common dialogs
  • Mixed Raster Content (MRC)

Support and Documentation

  • Source code for many demo projects to help jump-start your development
  • Comprehensive documentation for every function, method, property, and event and various “How To Use” topics
  • Free technical support from LEADTOOLS

Bitonal and Color Image Processing

  • Document image processing and pre-recognition cleanup
  • General image processing
  • Image segmentation
  • Imaging common dialogs

Image Display and Annotation

  • Image Viewers
  • Image annotation and markup
  • Enhanced bitonal image display

Virtual Printer, Image Capture, and Scanning

  • Virtual Printer driver to capture print jobs from any application
  • Acquire images and control TWAIN devices and scanners
  • Optimize scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN acquisition
  • Acquire images and control SANE devices and scanners
  • Acquire images and control WIA devices and scanners
  • Capture images from the screen
  • Print images to Windows printers

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging can be Extended to Add More Technology

Add-on modules and plug-ins may be added to LEADTOOLS Document Imaging to add even more imaging technology.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging can be Upgraded to Add Specialised Imaging Technology

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging is the base SDK for other more advanced LEADTOOLS imaging products. These more advanced products include all of the imaging technology contained in the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging product and add supplementary advanced and/or specialised technology.

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