LEADTOOLS Raster Products Overview

LEAD offers several Raster Imaging programming SDKs with support for over 150 file formats including TIFF, JPG, J2K**, PDF**, and GIF using various compression schemes like JPEG, JPEG2000, LZW, CCITT G3/G4, and CMP. Scan, capture, 200+ image processing filters, high speed display (resize, rotate, quality controls), and much more.

With LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging, your clients will think that you have spent years becoming an expert in the field of imaging. Whether it is image conversion, TWAIN scanning, screen capture†, display and transition effects†, image processing, colour conversion, printing, compression, database image support, Internet image support, etc, you will have a quick answer - "Yes, I can do that with LEADTOOLS!"

LEAD Technologies provides several comprehensive programming toolkits to choose for your raster imaging development.

• What's New in v15

Developer Toolkits

• LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging SDK
  High level interfaces give you everything you need to add almost any imaging feature imaginable to your application.
   
• LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro SDK
  Adds low level interfaces to the high level interfaces so you get a finer control of functionality with least possible overhead.
   
• LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro for .NET
  The power and flexibility of LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro ported to managed .NET classes.
   
• LEADTOOLS For Pocket PC
  Using rock solid, time-tested code, LEAD Technologies has ported much of its LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro toolkit to Pocket PC 2002.

Summary of LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Technology

LEAD's basic Raster Imaging functionality includes:

• File Format Support - Read, write and convert image files in over 150† of the most popular standard image formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF (including G3/G4, LZW, CMYK, JTIF, many more), PNG, BMP, MODCA/IOCA, PCX, TGA, and many more!
  
   
• Image Processing - Use more than 200 digital filters and transforms to process images (or selected portions). Smooth, sharpen, edge detect/enhance, modify brightness/contrast/gamma, change hue and saturation, red-eye removal, unsharp mask, add noise, resize and rotate images using various resampling techniques (including bicubic), and much more.
  
   
• Colour Conversion - Convert between colour modes, like 24-bit true-colour, 8-bit indexed, 1-bit black/white, and many more. Changing the colour mode changes the amount of data stored per pixel, which alters an image's memory/disk requirements.
  
   
• Compression - Compress images using a wide variety of compression algorithms, including JPEG, CMP, LZW, G3/G4, Huffman, run-length, and many more . LEAD offers comprehensive support for compression schemes found in standard raster file formats, as well as high-performance proprietary compression technologies that outperform the industry standards.
  
   
• Image Display/Effects - Render images or selected regions to display device while controlling position/scaling, resample method (normal/bilinear/bicubic), brightness/contrast/gamma, colour-reduction/dithering, image(source) and device(destination) clipping, and more. Navigate large images using a small pan-window†, browse a group of images using a thumbnail viewer†, apply 2000+ paint transitions and effects† between viewed images.
  
   
• Scanning via TWAIN - Control image acquisition from any device (scanner, digital camera, etc) which supports TWAIN. Use device's built in user-interface or create your own.
  
   
• Printing - Print images or selected regions while controlling position/scaling, halftoning/dithering. Print multiple images and text to a single or multiple pages.
  
   
• Database Imaging - Store images (any supported file-format/compression-technique) to a variety of databases, including SQL, Oracle or any database which supports ODBC, OLE DB, or that can be bound via VB data control connections.
  
   
• Common Dialogs† - Imaging Common Dialogs provide a set of common dialog boxes that combine Windows Common Dialog functionality with LEADTOOLS imaging functionality. Common dialogs are provided for every LEADTOOLS image processing functions plus FileOpen, FileSave, Colour Resolution, Image Processing/Filtering, Effects and more. You can specify your own String and/or Text, as well as handle Language Customisation – This is a great feature for globalizing your software.
  
   
• Internet - Includes functions to load images from URL's or memory streams. All LEADTOOLS products include ActiveX† controls and Pro products include COM† objects that can be used to extend functionality on a server or in Internet Explorer.
   

• Digital Paint† (Only Included in Raster Pro) - A must for anyone who wants to add digital painting functionality to their application. With LEADTOOLS' Digital Paint feature, a developer can create an entire image editing or design application, or simply add pieces of those types of functionality into an existing application.
   

** This feature requires additional purchase.
† This feature maybe different or nonexistent in the .NET version.

• BIG requires a LEADTOOLS Document Imaging product.
• JPEG2000 compression requires a LEADTOOLS Document or Medical Imaging product .
• DICOM requires a LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging product.
• Requires LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro toolkit
• PDF support requires the purchase of the LEADTOOLS PDF Plug-in.
• LEAD Wavelet compression requires a LEADTOOLS Document or Medical Imaging product.

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
Head Office MicroWay Pty Ltd PO Box 84, Braeside, Victoria, 3195, Australia Ph: 1300 553 313 Fax: 1300 132 709 sales@microway.com.au		Sydney Sales Office MicroWay Pty Ltd PO Box 1733, Crows Nest, NSW 1585, Australia Tel: 1300 553 313 Fax: 1300 132 709 sales@microway.com.au
International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995