What's New in LEADTOOLS v16?

LEADTOOLS Version 16 revamps the raster imaging SDK product line. It introduces an entry-level raster SDK, and streamlines LEADTOOLS flagship Document and Medical SDKs to provide simplified purchase options:

LEADTOOLS Imaging re-introduces the popular, time-tested ActiveX (OCX) raster imaging programming interface, including TWAIN, Windows Common Dialog, and WPF support.
LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro is packed with new features for .NET, C DLL, and C++ Class Library programming interfaces. It includes WPF support with new transition effects, and introduces a JPIP add-on module.
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging introduces WPF annotations and ' a la cart' add-on options for comprehensive recognition and processing of Forms (new!), 1D Barcodes, 2D Barcodes (all in one package!) and OCR / MICR /ICR /OMR with multiple engine options!
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging is updated to the latest DICOM standard, with enhanced medical image viewer controls and powerful add-on modules for DICOM PACS, a comprehensive WCF Web Viewer framework, and medical multimedia support.

New in all LEADTOOLS V16 Non-Multimedia Imaging SDKs:

WPF Standard .NET is now included with all LEADTOOLS non-multimedia imaging SDKs. It includes:
- Windows Imaging Component (WIC) Codecs. Instantly add support for 40+ file formats to any WIC/WPF application, including the Windows XP SP3 Explorer and Vista Photo Explorer.
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) BItmapSource viewes to add interactive image display and tools to any WPF XAML-based application.
- 200+ Bitmap Effects and image processing functions to add visual interest to WPF content.
- Image List control to display lists of thumbnail images in multiple view styles.
WPF Pro .NET support is now included with LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro, Document Imaging, and Medical Imaging SDKs. It includes:
- New WPF transition animation effects. Add comprehensive slide transition effects to your WPF applications.
- The most advanced WPF Image Viewer controls that work directly with LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro .NET classes, for full LEADTOOLS file format and image processing support. Includes styleable scroll, zoom, pan, magnify glass, and image list.
- Advanced WPF image processing, for full access to all LEADTOOLS image processing functions in your WPF applications.

New in V16: LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK:

Provides ActiveX (OCX) support for adding to any application the ability to display, load, save, convert or process images. Gives developers the ability to interact creatively with front-end designers, create extremely small footprint applications, obtain low-level access to pixel data, create custom image processing filters, exert full control over load/process/save functions, share images (without copying) via DIBs/DDBs, and exert full control over all display options.

COM objects provide TWAIN device support with Windows Common Dialog boxes that incorporate LEADTOOLS Imaging functionality.

Return of the time-tested and robust ActiveX programming interface. Allows you to display and manipulate image lists and incorporate image compression, file format support, and image processing functionality into your applications.
TWAIN object gives you TWAIN scanner control, including TWAIN resource management, page acquisition, and TWAIN device handling (such as scanners, barcode readers, and digital cameras).
Common Dialogs object gives you reusable imaging common dialogs for the most common LEADTOOLS imaging functions and effects.
ABC Read is in all products.
ABC Write is in Document and Medical SDKs.

New in V16: LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK:

LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro V16 is the core follow-on to LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro v15 for .NET (including WPF, AJAX, and COM Interoperability), C DLL, and C++ Class Library programming interfaces.

WIA Scanning Support provides a powerful set of functions with in-depth support for image acquisition from a wide variety of hardware devices.
GIF Animation in .NET. Display and animate graphics from any image file format supported by LEADTOOLS.

New Add Ons to Imaging Pro:

LEADTOOLS JPIP Module includes JPIP Server, Client and Viewer components for viewing large, high-resolution images with minimal network bandwidth requirements. Ideal for sattelite and medical image applications.

New in V16: LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK:

Includes all LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro features.
New WPF annotations provide a means to mark up images with over 20 different objects including sticky notes, redaction, pointers, hotspots, hyperlinks and text.
New Auto Binarize image processing function automatically coverts a colored image to bitonal (black-and-white) while preserving important image features such as text.
New enhanced Deskew with drastic improvement in the accuracy, without affecting the speed by making pre-processing faster and new Selective detection algorithms that increase Deskew accuracy for scanned documents.
Save raster images as PDF/A.
Read PDF 1.5/1.6

New Add Ons to Document Imaging:

LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition Module: Provides Forms Recognition and Processing for classifying, processing and extracting data from scanned form images.
LEADTOOLS 2D Barcode Module: All supported 2D symbols (DataMatrix, QR Code, PDF417 and MicroPDF417) are included in one product!
The new OCR design for .NET greatly simplifies coding, and speeds the development of OCR applications with:
- High-level design
- Increased ease of use
- Same code can be used with your choice of LEADTOOLS OCR Modules:
LEADTOOLS OCR Module - Plus: Includes automatic and manual zone detection, formatted output, auto-orientation, custom spelling dictionaries and MICR support. PDF and PDF/A output, ICR and OMR support is available.
LEADTOOLS OCR Module - Professional: Includes the fastest and most accurate automatic and manual zone detection, Unicode support, formatted output, auto-orientation, custom spelling dictionaries and MICR support. PDF and PDF/A output, ICR and OMR support is available
LEADTOOLS ICR Module
LEADTOOLS OMR Module
LEADTOOLS JPIP Module

New V16: LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK::

Includes all LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro and Document Imaging features.
Enhanced Medical Viewer Controls for rapid development of medical image viewing applications.
DICOM updates to latest DICOM Standard:
- Supports all IODs in the 2008 DICOM specification.
- Supports multi-frame Functional Groups Module.
- Added functionality for dealing with private tags in DICOM datasets includes getting / setting raw and PDF data.
- Supports 1-bit image data.
Now provides ANSI version of the DICOM C DLL and C++ Class Library.

New Add Ons to Medical Imaging:

All Document Imaging Add-Ons
LEADTOOLS Dicom PACS Module: Everything you need to create both client and server components of a picture archive and retrieval system (PACS) that can retrieve, distribute, and present medical images. Includes full support for:
- Medical data communications, automated processing, and all DICOM client/server classes, command sets, and command elements.
- Secure transport connection profiles with authentication, whether encrypted or unencrypted.
- All storage IOD classes and service classes defined in the DICOM version 3 2008 base standard.
LEADTOOLS Medical Multimedia Module: Includes the LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK and a collection of DirectShow filters specifically tailored to the needs of developers incorporating any type of multimedia support in medical and DICOM applications.
LEADTOOLS Medical Web Viewer Framework Module: Web Viewer Framework that includes Windows Communication Foundation components and services. These are ideal for the development of web-based solutions, such as teleradiology applications, that query patient studies and view images from remote computers using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
LEADTOOLS JPIP Module

New Demos

New COM Interop Demos (.Net COM Interop)
New line by line compress Demo (C DLL)
Dicom MWL Demos (.Net)
Dicom Waveforms Demos (.Net)

New V16: LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging SDK:

Includes all LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro features.
New MIF file format support.
New E00 file format support.
Supports DXF2004 file format Support.

New Add Ons to Vector Imaging:

LEADTOOLS JPIP Module

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