Document Developer Toolkit

Develop powerful document-enabled applications with LEADTOOLS Document. Features include PDF viewing and editing, comprehensive annotation and markup, specialized bitonal image displaying, and image processing. Other features include performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image cleanup, including inverted text, border, hole-punch, and line removal, and scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN and WIA.

LEADTOOLS Document is the entry-level product for developing document and document imaging applications with LEADTOOLS. More advanced features including OCR, forms recognition, and HTML5/JavaScript viewing are available within more advanced toolkits within the Document Family.

What is included in the Document SDK?

Documents—Create, Load, Save, View, Edit, Convert

Document Framework
Document Analyzer
Document Compare
Document Converter
Document Viewer
Document Writers

Images—Load, Save, Conversion, and Compression

Load, save, and convert more than 150 raster image and document formats, including:
- JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, PDF, DOC/DOCX, SVG—Full list of LEADTOOLS formats
Industry-standard and proprietary compression and decompression, including:
- JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XR, JBIG & JBIG2, CCITT, CCITT G3 and CCITT G4, ABIC, LZW, RLE and PackBits, ZIPLIB, LEAD CMP, LEAD CMW, LEAD ABC
Load, edit, save, and convert vector file formats
Create document formats including searchable PDF, XPS, and DOCX
Load, save, and convert both raster image and searchable PDF files
Load, save, and modify image metadata
OCR output document formats, including searchable PDF, XPS, and DOC
SVG creation and conversion
EMF creation and conversion
Archive files and data to CD, DVD, and ISO files
JPIP
High-level image compression optimizer to automatically optimize bit depth and compression settings
Imaging common dialogs
Mixed Raster Content (MRC)

PDF

View and Convert PDF Documents as Vector with SVG
Merge, Split, Convert, Linearize, and Distill PDF files
Read and Extract text, bookmarks, hyperlinks, metadata, and more from PDF
Convert images such as JPEG or TIFF to searchable, text-based PDF
Convert images such as JPEG or TIFF to image-based PDF
Convert PDF to an image format such as JPEG or TIFF
Optimize PDF documents with LEADTOOLS PDF Optimizer
Capture print jobs and convert to PDF from any application
Compress image-based PDF files

Bitonal and Color Image Processing

Document image processing and pre-recognition cleanup
General image processing
Image segmentation
Imaging common dialogs

Virtual Printer, Image Capture, and Scanning

Virtual Printer driver to capture print jobs from any application
Acquire images and control TWAIN devices and scanners
HTML5/JavaScript Web Scanning with TWAIN or SANE
Optimize scanning with LEADTOOLS Fast TWAIN acquisition
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

Image Display and Annotation

Image Viewers
HTML5/JavaScript Viewers
Image annotation and mark up
Enhanced bitonal image display

LEADTOOLS Document can be Upgraded to Add Specialized Technology

The LEADTOOLS Document is the base SDK for other more advanced LEADTOOLS products. These more advanced products include all of the technology contained in the LEADTOOLS Document product and add supplementary and specialized technology.