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LEADTOOLS v14.5 is here!

This latest release of the LEADTOOLS family of imaging toolkits is packed with new and updated features. Using our 15 years of experience in developing superior imaging products, we have created our most comprehensive toolkit line yet. From advanced document and medical features to new file formats and TWAIN technology, v14.5 promises to maintain its position as the LEADer in imaging toolkits.

Check out what's new in the latest version of LEADTOOLS:

New MultiMedia Imaging Features

New Document Imaging Features:

* New Document Compression:

  • ABICJBIG2

  • LEAD ABC (Advanced Bitonal Compression)


* New Annotation Features:

  • Save annotations in a new XML format

  • New Calibrate Ruler Feature

  • New Annotation Cursors

  • New Alpha Background Fill Option

  • Improved UI features in Annotations

    • XP style toolbar

    • New selection style

    • New group selection style

    • New rotate behavior

    • New annotation multiselect

    • much more

* New ZoomView feature for image display

* New Barcode - New support for QR Barcodes and support for two Barcode Linear Modules (standard and advanced)

* Updated MRC - New and Advanced segmentation method for Mixed Raster Content file formats

New TWAIN

* Twain High-level Functions
* Twain JPEG Compression: Describes the information necessary to transfer a JPEG-compressed image during a buffered transfer. The resulting images will be compatible with the JPEG File Interchange Format, version 1.1.
* TWAIN File System: Provides functionality to negotiate TWAIN file system.
* New Twain demos

New Features for .NET Class Library

* ImageList support for .Net
* New file formats added to .Net
* FileOpen/Save dialogs for .Net

New PDF Compressor

* Produces highly optimized PDF files
* Includes the PDF Write Plug-in, plus optimized compression options with MRC (mixed raster content)
* Supports many compression types
o ZIP ( Flate compression )
o LZW
o FAX CCITT ( G3 1D, G3 2D, G4 )
o JBIG2
o Lossless JPEG
o JPEG ( YUV 4.4.4, YUV 4.2.2 and YUV 4.1.1 )
* Produces v1.4 (Adobe Acrobat 5.X) PDF files.
* Provides input profiles to specify source image quality
* and much more

New Image Optimizer

* Optimize images for websites or applications by reducing colors and maximizing compression
* Optimizes a single image buffer (saved in memory)
* Optimizes a directory full of supported formats images:
* LEADTOOLS supports the following formats (most commonly used by Internet Explorer)
o JPEG
o JPEG 411
o JPEG 422
o EXIF JPEG
o EXIF JPEG
o GIF
o PNG
o BMP Without RLE Compression
o BMP With RLE Compression

New Medical Imaging Features:

* New Image Viewer Control for medical imaging
* New medical specific image processing functions
* Medical Display Container: A new high-level component that cuts the time to build medical display applications such as DICOM viewers and high-end diagnostic workstations by half.
* Medical Web Viewer Demo: A fully functional web-based, DICOM-enabled medical/radiology viewer. The demo shows how to implement the basic features that are available in a telemedicine solution using the LEADTOOLS medical imaging toolkit and the Microsoft.NET framework.
* Medical Multimedia Filter Pack (MPEG-2 Compression in DICOM): includes a set of DirectShow filters for compressing and decompressing video data inside DICOM files. The writer component of this product provides the ability to add video data to a DICOM dataset using MPEG-2, JPEG or JPEG2000 compression. The reader component adds support to any DirectShow-based media player to play video data inside a DICOM file.
* Added new DICOM demos for .NET, both in C# and VB.NET.
* MRI Brain Analysis tool.
* Cookie Cutter: Adds the ability to extract individual slices from a radiographic scanned film.

General Imaging Features:

* New CMYK TIFF (Load, save, print, process CMYK data)
* Compact TIFF files
* GeoKey (TIFF tag) support
* Full ICC Profile Management

LEADTOOLS 14.5 Compatibility

Customers upgrading from v14 to v14.5 will not need to rewrite their code to make use of the new features and add-ons. Easily transition with no down-time or interruption to your development!

** LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Products, Medical Imaging Products, Multimedia Suite and Vector Imaging Pro toolkit requires runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact sales@pds-site.com.