LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging Developer Toolkit

The LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK is a handpicked collection of LEADTOOLS SDK features designed to build end-to-end document imaging 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 LEAD’s 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 Imaging includes the LEADTOOLS OCR Module – LEAD Engine, which powers the text and forms recognition capabilities bundled with this product. LEADTOOLS also packages and licenses additional third-party OCR engines which offer ICR, Arabic, and more. Check out the Document Imaging Family for more details on the other LEADTOOLS toolkits and add-on modules for developing your next document imaging application.

What’s Included in the LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK?

OCR, MICR, OMR

• OCR
• MICR
• OMR

Barcode

• 1D Barcode
• 2D Barcode

Forms Recognition and Processing

• Forms Recognition and Processing
• Invoice Recognition and Processing
• Check Recognition and Processing (MICR)
• Passport Recognition and Processing
• Driver’s License Recognition and Processing
• Business Card Recognition
• Credit Card Recognition

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

• Document Framework
• Document Viewer
• Document Converter
• Document Writers

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
• Optimize 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.

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 mark up
• 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

Image Load, Save, Conversion, and Compression

• Load, save, and convert more than 150 raster image and document formats, including:
• JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, PDF, DOC/DOCX, SVG—Full list of LEADTOOLS formats
• 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 PDF files
• Load, save, and modify image metadata
• OCR output document formats including searchable PDF, XPS, and DOC
• SVG creation and conversion
• EMF creation and conversion
• Archive files and data to CD, DVD, and ISO files
• JPIP
• High-level image compression optimizer to automatically optimize bit depth and compression settings
• Imaging common dialogs
• Mixed Raster Content (MRC)

LEADTOOLS Distributed Computing SDK

The LEADTOOLS Distributed Computing SDK provides developers with a complete job-processing framework which can be used to create powerful distributed applications. Utilizing an existing network of servers and worker machines, either on premise, cloud, or a combination, developers use the framework to create distributed, grid, or parallel computing applications.

Click here for more details about LEADTOOLS Distributed Computing SDK technology.

LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging Includes Technology From

All of the technology from the following products is included with LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging:

• LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS OCR Module – LEAD Engine

LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging can be Extended to Add More Technology

LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging includes LEADTOOLS OCR Module – LEAD Engine.

Additional modules and plug-ins may be added to LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging to add even more imaging technology.

• LEADTOOLS OCR Module – OmniPage Engine
• LEADTOOLS OCR Module – OmniPage Engine with Additional Languages
• LEADTOOLS ICR Module – OmniPage Engine

LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging can be Upgraded to Add Specialized Imaging Technology

The LEADTOOLS Recognition 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 Recognition Imaging product and add supplementary advanced and/or specialized technology.

• LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK

Add Multimedia Technology to Applications

• LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK

Platforms and Programming Interfaces

• C Windows API – C/C++, Java
• .NET
• C#, VB, C++/CLI, XAML
• WinForms, WPF, Core, Xamarin, UWP
• Web Services – JSON, WebAPI, SOAP, RESTful
• iOS & macOS – Objective-C, Swift, Xamarin
• Android – Java, Xamarin
• Linux – Java & C/C++, .NET Core

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