Recognition Developer Toolkit

The LEADTOOLS Recognition SDK is a handpicked collection of LEADTOOLS SDK features designed to build end-to-end OCR applications within enterprise-level document automation solutions that require OCR, MICR, OMR, barcode, forms recognition and processing, PDF, print capture, archival, annotation, and image viewing functionality. This powerful set of tools utilizes LEAD’s award-winning image processing technology to intelligently identify document features that can be used to recognize and extract data from any type of scanned or faxed form image.

LEADTOOLS Recognition includes the LEADTOOLS OCR Engine, which powers the text and forms recognition capabilities bundled with this product. Check out the Document Family for more details on the other LEADTOOLS toolkits for developing your next application.

What is included in the Recognition SDK?

OCR, MICR, OMR

OCR
MICR
OMR

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

Barcode

1D Barcode
2D Barcode

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)

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

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

LEADTOOLS Recognition Includes Technology From

The technology from the following is included with LEADTOOLS Recognition:

LEADTOOLS Recognition SDK

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

LEADTOOLS Document can be Upgraded to Add Specialized Technology

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