A Toolkit/Component Suite by LEAD Technologies, Inc.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging includes everything in the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK, Plus OCR support. Features include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), and specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. Other features include performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line removal and scanning with Fast TWAIN.

Detailed Features:

Annotations
Powerful annotation capabilities which enable the addition of text, highlights, sticky notes, audio, ellipses, circles, squares, buttons, lines, arrows, rectangles, polygons, redaction (blackout), hotspots, freehand scribble, pointers, images, stamps, rulers and hyperlinks all with multilayer security features, to document, color and grayscale images. Annotation functionality is included with both the Document Imaging and Document Imaging Suite products.

Display, Memory and Processing Optimizations
All of the display functionality in the Raster Imaging products, plus specialized display options called bitonal scaling for greatly increasing the quality and readability of black and white images on the screen are included in the Document Imaging products.
Faster loading and viewing speeds and reduced requirements for end-users are a result of the Document Imaging products capacity to keep images compressed in memory. Additionally, advanced algorithms, such as the FastRotate function, take full advantage of these memory optimizations to make the process instantaneous.

Image Acquisition - TWAIN Capture
TWAIN drivers are standard with almost all scanner and other image acquisition hardware. Also, with recent advancements, LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN is the technology of choice for performance and reliability. LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products currently support all functionality included in the TWAIN v1.9 specification.

Image Enhancement Functionality
During scanning or faxing, noise and distortion can occur and cause a decrease in accuracy in OCR and human readers. To combat these imperfections, users of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products can employ specialized functions called Doc-Clean to remove noise, borders, lines and hole punches, smooth text and invert white on black text, and other functions to straighten skewed images (deskew), fatten thinning lines and text (dilatation) and erode text that has gotten too thick (erosion).

Specialized Storage and Compression
Mixed Raster Content (MRC) uses a technique of dividing images into image and text components and then uses a compression especially suited for that type of image to get the best compression and quality possible.
JBIG is a bitonal image compression that uses several advanced techniques to compress bitonal images with no loss and consistently maintains much better compression ratios as compared to CCITT compression techniques.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
OCR will convert images into text to be used as strings in code or can be saved as several document, database and spreadsheet formats. (More details concerning LEADTOOLS OCR functionality.) OCR functionality is available as an OCR add on for Document Imaging or is included with the Document Imaging Suite product.

Six Programming Interfaces
Six programming interfaces are included: A low level API, a C++ class library, COM Objects, ActiveX, VCL controls, and .NET components. LEADTOOLS Document Imaging products ship with sample source code for Visual Basic, C/C++, Visual C++ (MFC), C++ Builder, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, Access, Delphi, and VB and JavaScript. And supports Visual Studio 6.0 database connectivity (Oracle, SQL, OLE DB, ODBC, and JET).