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 faster and more
accurate 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 Network Virtual Printer, 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.
New
products and Major Additions to the LEADTOOLS Product Line
Advanced PDF and Document Reader
LEADTOOLS now includes comprehensive PDF reading and viewing with advanced
capabilities such as support for extraction of text, hyperlinks, bookmarks and
metadata. Developers can take advantage of these properties to enhance their
applications with dynamic document viewing, editing and assembly features.
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.
Barcode
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.
Cloud SDK
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.Utilizing 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.
CCOW
With the LEADTOOLS Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) SDK technology,
application developers can easily add support for 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
components to quickly and easily develop robust Context Management solutions
that tie together critical information scattered across multiple systems and
disparate applications.
New Product - Multimedia Suite
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.
What's
new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine
Detect, read and write Barcodes
in Silverlight and Windows
Phone
New high-level Barcode design for .NET simplifies
adding support for all barcode types in your application without
any special knowledge of barcode symbologies
Dramatically increased
barcode recognition speed by up
to 9X
Automated cleanup for barcodes
PDF updates
and improvements
- PDF runtime now requires only a single
DLL for
distribution
- Merge multiple
PDF or Postscript files into a single PDF document
- Split a
PDF into multiple documents
-
Extract text with
properties such as bounding rectangle, font information and
color
-
Extract hyperlinks, bookmarks and internal links
- Load and save PDF
metadata such
as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords and Producer
- New PDF
Document Editor with
extended support for adding, replacing, and deleting pages
in any PDF file
- Enhanced PDF
encryption support
- Convert Postscript
files to
PDF with full control over distiller, encryption and
compatability settings
- Convert existing PDF files to linearized
PDFs (optimized
for web viewing)
- Convert existing PDF files to PDF/A-1B
- Save fully customized UNICODE
Bookmarks in
PDF files
- Added support for multi-threaded
PDF load
- Added support for writing PDF
1.3 and 1.6
- New PDF
Info Extractor gets
information about PDF version, image width, height, bit
depth, compression and DPI
OCR Advantage Engine updates
and improvements
- AutoZone has been improved to provide fewer, more
accurate zones, improving OCR results
- Dramatically accelerated
AutoZone detection, improving overall performance
for OCR
- Faster Advanced Table Detection, providing
better performance when dealing with documents containing
tables
- New image pre-processing features
to improve OCR results including fixing broken letters,
dithered text, inverted text and more.
- Now supports the following languages: Bulgarian,
Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech,
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
- Added support for built-in
Spellchecking including NHunspell and
Microsoft'sSystem.Windows.Controls.SpellCheck engines
Enhancements to Existing File
Formats
- Support for loading Office
2007 formats:
DOCX, XLSX and PPTX
- Optimized load performance for DOC format
- Added ability to load Office formats from memory
- Added support for JBIG2 with non-sequential
headers (i.e.
random access)
- Support for loading refinement
segments in JBIG2
format
Increased the speed of the Line
Remove image
processing function
New ImageColorType function
for detecting whether the image is mostly black and white,
grayscale or color.
Virtual Printer now
supports network printing
Click here for more information on all features within the LEADTOOLS
Document Imaging Engine. .
What's
new in the LEADTOOLS Medical Engine
-
Medical Workstation now
fully supports customization and localization.
Users can easily change the look and feel or language strings of
the Medical Workstation for re-branding or localization
purposes.
- New Modality
Worklist (MWL) and Modality
Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) WCF
Service Component for the PACS
Framework
-
Medical Image Viewer Features
and Enhancements
- Added options for customizing the border of cells in the
viewer
- Exposed more low-level annotation features
- Image Orientation tag
automatically updates based on the current image orientation
- Added GetScale method,
so user can get the current image scale value
- Added feature to allow the user to change the active
sub-cell programmatically
- Added MatchScale method
to allow users to make all the other cells match the scaling
value of the specified cell
- Added Cobb
Angle annotation tool
- Added user interface tools for Image
Alpha (Sigmoid,
Exponential and Logarithmic)
- Added VirtualImage property
which allows the user to receive advanced details and status
regarding the cell. This is useful for MPR, Derivative and
Low Memory Usage cells.
- Empty cells with no assigned image can now be active,
utilize tools and display text/tags
- Added Drag
and Drop support
for cells
- New image display and scaling options:
UseDpi, FitIfLarger, Stretch, Explode
- New MPRType property
to identify the axis for localization purposes
- Advanced synchronization tools
including multiple series and viewer control instances
- Added GetPage method
to allow user to get the desired frame from any cell type
-
3D Features
and Enhancements
- Added support for Curved
MPR/ Panoramic Polygon
- Added ability to generate and view Paraxial
Cuts
- Added the ability to programmatically set the index of
the MPR cell
- Added ImageLoaded event
-
DICOM Features
and Enhancements
- New DLL dedicated to the internal DICOM tables, reducing
deployment footprint
- Ability to load DICOM
tables from XML, simplifying customization,
updating and portability of IOD tables
- Get and Set encapsulated
documents from memory and
disk
- Added write support for YBR_FULL Photometric
Interpretation with uncompressed and RLE-compressed DICOM
image pixel data
- Added support for DICOM JPEG-LS Lossy
and Lossless transfer syntaxes
Click here for more information on all features within the LEADTOOLS
Medical Imaging Engine.
What's
new in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Engine
- Simplified redistribution of
Multimedia .NET interface which does not require registration
- Optimized Motion
JPEG 2000 Codec to
support multiple cores, making it up to 8x
faster
- Optimized HD Capture and
channel selection
- Push Windows Media Content to a Windows Media Server with
new LEAD MMS
Sink Filter(included with the Video
Streaming Module)
- New LEAD
RLE Decoder for
play or converting Quicktime and MP4 files using RLE compression
-
MPEG-2 Transport Multiplexer
now supports UAV
Datalink Minimum Metadata Set (MISB STD 0902.1)
- Improved the speed of KLV
data extraction
from MPEG-2 Transport files
- RTSP filter now supports HTTP
Tunneling, which allows users to stream data from RTSP
cameras on another network
- RTSP Source now supports µ-Law and a-Law
audio (Cisco
WVC210v camera)
- Added support for live and on-demand IIS
Smooth Streaming
- LEAD Windows Media Reader now
supports playback of Windows Media Streams whose format changes
during streaming
- Embed metadata and scripts into
Windows Media Stream
- Combine multiple audio streams with the new LEAD
Audio Mixer Filter
- UDP Source now supports raw uncompressed
streams conforming to RFC4175
- New utility for enabling and disabling the use of Media
Foundation modules in Windows Media Player
- Added closed
captioning support
to the MPEG-2
Decoder
-
Convert closed
captioning information
to readable formats such as SubRip
(SRT) or Text
- Save the settings of the target format in the convert
module
- Fast and efficient creation of ISO/MP4 files with new Fast
Save option
- Extended maximum file size and time limit of ISO/MP4 files
to over 4GB and 8 hours
- Improved the performance of the Dynamic
Frame Rate Controller
Click here for more information on all features within the LEADTOOLS
Multimedia Imaging Engine.
What's
new in the LEADTOOLS Raster Engine
-
New File Formats
-
New Digital Camera Formats (DCF)
- CR2 - Canon
- NEF & NRW - Nikon
- DNG - Adobe
- ORF - Olympus
- ARW, SR2 & SRF - Sony
- RAW & RW2 - Panasonic
- RAF - Fujifilm
- Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading OS/2 BMP 16-bit
- Support for loading PNG 1+1
- Support for ARGB4 color
conversion
Click here for more information on all features within the LEADTOOLS
Imaging Engine.
What's
new in the LEADTOOLS Vector Engine
- Added support for loading PCL6
- Optimized load performance of PCL and CGM formats
- CGM view options now support Virtual
Device Coordinates (VDC)
- Added support for loading different DXF
paper spaces
- Added Geometric
text support
for DXF
- Added CMYK
RLE raster
data support within PCL
- Added support in DWF filter to load according to sheet
dimensions
Click here for more information on all features within the LEADTOOLS
Vector Imaging Engine.
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. |
