LEADTOOLS PDF Pro Developer Toolkit

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro provides PDF APIs to read, write, raster-view, and update PDF files on all major platforms. With the PDF Pro toolkit, developers can extract of text, images, hyperlinks, and metadata from PDF files. The SDK also provides complete control of pages in existing PDF documents. Conversion to PDF/A documents that are ready for archival can be done in a few lines of code. Additionally, with the included LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer, PDF files can be made web-ready with linearization and compression.

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro includes all features of Imaging Pro, such as 150+ formats, compression, image processing, viewers, TWAIN and WIA scanning, and more. This combination of PDF and imaging features makes the LEADTOOLS PDF Pro an extreme value.

The LEADTOOLS PDF Pro product is the entry-level SDK that includes PDF APIs. If you are looking for even more value, be sure to check out the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging SDKs. Those include the features of PDF Pro SDK plus provide more advanced PDF functions such as viewing PDF documents as vector and converting PDF documents to Word and hundreds of other formats.

What’s Included in the LEADTOOLS PDF Pro SDK?

PDF

• Merge, Split, Convert, Linearize, and Distill PDF files
• Read and Extract text, hyperlinks, metadata, and more from PDF
• Convert images such as JPEG and TIFF to image-based PDF
• Convert PDF to image formats such as JPEG and TIFF
• Optimize PDF documents with LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer
• Compress image-based PDF files

Image Load, Save, Conversion, and Compression

• Load, save, and convert more than 150 raster image formats, including:
• JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF—Full list of LEADTOOLS formats
• Load, save, and modify image metadata
• Industry-standard and proprietary compression and decompression, including:
• JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XR, CCITT, CCITT G3 and CCITT G4, LZW, RLE and PackBits, ZIPLIB, LEAD CMP, LEAD CMW, LEAD ABC
• High-level image-compression optimizer to automatically optimize bit depth and compression settings
• Imaging common dialogs

Image Processing

• More than 200 image processing functions
• Imaging common dialogs
• Digital paint technology

Image Viewers and Display

• Image Viewers (Raster only)
• Imaging common dialogs

Image Capture and Scanning

• Acquire images and control TWAIN devices and scanners
• 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 PDF Pro Includes Technology From

All of the technology from the following products is included with LEADTOOLS PDF Pro:

• LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro can be Upgraded to Add Specialized Imaging Technology

LEADTOOLS PDF Pro 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 PDF Pro product and add supplementary advanced and/or specialized technology.

• LEADTOOLS Pro Suite SDK

These products also include support to view and convert PDF documents as vector with SVG:

• LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK
• LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite 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