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What’s New in LEADTOOLS 22

LEAD Technologies is very pleased to introduce LEADTOOLS Version 22. LEADTOOLS has continued to raise the standard of innovative technologies for 31+ years and there is no end in sight. This release is highlighted by new libraries and features that are found within LEAD’s Document, Recognition, Medical, Imaging, and Multimedia technologies.

What’s new in the LEADTOOLS Document Engine

Document Editor

LEAD is proud to introduce the new LEADTOOLS Document Editor control for HTML/JavaScript development. The LEADTOOLS Document Editor control provides a word-processor like experience that can load, edit, and save PDF, DOC/DOCX, and RTF formats.

  • Zero-foot print document editing solution for HTML5/JavaScript applications
  • Supports loading, editing, and saving formats, such as DOC/DOCX, PDF, RTF, and TXT without additional third-party software
  • Includes rich document-editing capabilities, such as text search and replace, undo and redo, clipboard (cut, copy, and paste), ruler, fonts and styles, paragraph styles, text alignment, bulleted and numbered lists, images with text wrapping options, tables with split and merged cells, nested tables, and border styles, hyperlinks, headers and footers, page breaks, and keyboard shortcuts
  • Easy to integrate into existing solutions and workflows

The LEADTOOLS Document Editor is included in the new LEADTOOLS Edit SDK product and up. See the Document family of products for additional options.

Office and Text Formats Enhancements

  • Office format decryption – LEADTOOLS can decrypt DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, and PPT/PPTX files New option to show hidden PowerPoint slides
  • Improved rendering of PowerPoint slides, especially when dealing with master and layout slide relationships
  • Load spreadsheets saved as XLSB (Excel Binary)
  • Major enhancements have been made to the rendering of PST, MSG, and EML formats
  • Load and render text files with ANSI, UTF7, UTF8, UTF16LE, UTF16BE encoding
  • Enhanced font embedding techniques, which result in better conversion to PDF/A files
  • Expanded PDF digital signature support to Java for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android

What’s new in the LEADTOOLS Recognition Engine

New ID Reader SDK

The ID Reader SDK intelligently and automatically extracts data from live streams and scanned photos of id cards without requiring a structured layout.

  • Automatically extracts data from mobile device live streams and photos
  • Performs deep analysis to ensure that information is not missed
  • Also supports AAMVA barcode decoding
  • Available for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS
  • Support for hand-printed and cursive handwriting
  • Automatically detect and label handwritten text zones
  • Improved accuracy for uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, punctuation, and symbols
  • Automatic preprocessing which handles noisy and low-resolution images
  • Integrated dictionaries to improve accuracy
  • Process color and bitonal images
  • Output to the most popular document formats such as PDF, DOCX, HTML, and Text
  • Comprehensive reports for text results:
    • Character size, location, and baseline
    • Positional attributes, including end of word, end of line, and end of paragraph
    • Confidence values

OCR and ICR Enhancements

  • New noise removal techniques to improve detection of zones and recognition results

What’s new in the LEADTOOLS Medical Engine

DICOM Storage Server

  • Users can now run multiple instances of the LEADTOOLS DICOM Storage Server to scale up to handle an almost unlimited number of connections
  • New temporary file options to help control costs in a virtual environment
  • New filter options to process the logs
  • Faster TLS secured connections
  • Added support to run the storage server as a service using Automatic, delayed-start start-up type
  • Added options to specify the number of forward attempts when configured to forward to another DICOM server

Medical Web Viewer Updates

The LEADTOOLS Medical Web Viewer has received several updates, including:

  • Magnify-glass now supports higher-resolution region of interest when using the mag-glass
  • Enhanced algorithms to improve quality when resizing curved MPR shapes
  • Improved single/double cutline feature to allow two perpendicular lines to be cut on the 3D volume and extract the cutline slices
  • Support for Virtual Cephalometric rendering: which is a new 3D rendering technique to show a sagittal X-ray version of a volume
  • Patient’s positioning can be adjusted post-capture for better alignment, reducing the need for re-takes
  • Support for paraxial slicing: which are slices that are perpendicular to the panoramic curve, including the ability to control the size and location with the mouse
  • Optional server-side window level
  • CTR measurement tool to calculate the cardiothoracic ratio
  • Histogram control box provides a tool to users to dynamically adjust the image window level
  • Annotations and customized patient/study information can now be included when exporting to PDF
  • Calibrated images can be preserved and saved as derived series

DICOM Updates

Updated LEADTOOLS to the latest DICOM Tags, DICOM UIDs, DICOM IODs, DICOM Modules, and DICOM Context Groups to those in the 2021 DICOM Specification.

What’s new in the LEADTOOLS Imaging Engine

Updates to Formats

  • Load and save HEIC/HEIF images
  • Support for CGM ClearText encoding

What’s new in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Engine

Multimedia SDK Updates

  • The LEADTOOLS DirectShow players and converts can automatically rotate video captures from a rotated phone
  • LEADTOOLS can play RTSP content that carries embedded MPEG-2 transport streams

Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line

In Version 22, the following products have been added.

  • LEADTOOLS Edit – includes all features of the LEADTOOLS Document product and adds the LEADTOOLS Document Editor control.