LEAD Technologies: a world of imaging

LEAD Technologies is the world-leading supplier of imaging development SDKs. The LEADTOOLS family of toolkits is designed to help programmers integrate color, grayscale, document, medical, multimedia, Internet and vector imaging into their applications quickly and easily. LEAD's award-winning imaging technology has been chosen by Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Boeing, Xerox, Kodak, Ford Motor Company and thousands of other companies for use in their high volume applications and internal systems.

Imaging Categories
File Formats
Image Processing
Image Compression
Color Conversion
Image Display
Special Effects
Multimedia
Internet
Scanning/Capture
Common Dialogs
Annotations
Printing
Document Clean-up
Database
DICOM
OCR
ICR
OMR
MRC
Digital Paint
Barcode
JBIG
Vector
PDF
Flashpix
Raster Imaging SDK support for over 150 raster file formats including JPG (JFIF), GIF, and TIFF using various compression schemes like JPEG, LZW, G3/G4 and CMP, scanning/capture with TWAIN, 200+ image processing filters, flexible/high performance display options, and much more.

Document Imaging Document imaging including annotations, specialized bitonal (b/w) image display and processing like scale-to-gray and favor-black, performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, image clean-up like hole-punch, line and staple removal, high-speed scanning, OCR, Forms processing, Barcode Recognition and much more.

Medical Imaging DICOM, DICOM Communications, DICOM annotations, DICOM overlay, DICOM printing, 12 and 16-bit grayscale imaging including window-leveling and LUT processing and much more.

Vector Imaging 2D and 3D vector image formats, including DWG, DWF, DXF and DRW. Convert vector files to raster images, convert between vector formats, scale, rotate, change camera and lighting, edit vector objects. OpenGL, DirectX or GDI rendering engines and much more.

Multimedia Imaging
Audio/Video capture, playback and editing using Microsoft™ DirectX® and DirectShow® technologies. Includes fully functional video capture demos. Support for AVI, MPEG, WAV, MIDI, SND, AIF files and much more.

Imaging Categories File Formats Image Processing Image Compression Color Conversion Image Display Special Effects Multimedia Internet Scanning/Capture Common Dialogs Annotations Printing Document Clean-up Database DICOM OCR ICR OMR MRC Digital Paint Barcode JBIG Vector PDF Flashpix	Raster Imaging	SDK support for over 150 raster file formats including JPG (JFIF), GIF, and TIFF using various compression schemes like JPEG, LZW, G3/G4 and CMP, scanning/capture with TWAIN, 200+ image processing filters, flexible/high performance display options, and much more.
	Document Imaging	Document imaging including annotations, specialized bitonal (b/w) image display and processing like scale-to-gray and favor-black, performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, image clean-up like hole-punch, line and staple removal, high-speed scanning, OCR, Forms processing, Barcode Recognition and much more.
	Medical Imaging	DICOM, DICOM Communications, DICOM annotations, DICOM overlay, DICOM printing, 12 and 16-bit grayscale imaging including window-leveling and LUT processing and much more.
	Vector Imaging	2D and 3D vector image formats, including DWG, DWF, DXF and DRW. Convert vector files to raster images, convert between vector formats, scale, rotate, change camera and lighting, edit vector objects. OpenGL, DirectX or GDI rendering engines and much more.
	Multimedia Imaging	Audio/Video capture, playback and editing using Microsoft™ DirectX® and DirectShow® technologies. Includes fully functional video capture demos. Support for AVI, MPEG, WAV, MIDI, SND, AIF files and much more.