LEAD Technologies Celebrates 30 Years with the Release of LEADTOOLS Version 21
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Charlotte, NC (September 1, 2020) – Thirty years ago, LEAD was founded by Moe Daher and Rich Little with the vision of helping developers build better applications by providing innovative technology through easy-to-use software development toolkits. Crossing over this significant milestone, LEAD continues to carry out that vision with the release of LEADTOOLS Version 21. This major version release is highlighted by new cutting-edge libraries and features, including an intelligent Document Analyzer that automatically searches, finds, and takes action on data-of-interest within any structured or unstructured form and an ICR engine capable of robust handwriting recognition. Additionally, numerous other LEADTOOLS libraries have received an impressive amount of enhancements. “Over the past three decades, the entire team at LEAD has worked diligently in perfecting computer vision development for our Recognition, Document, Medical, Multimedia, and Imaging technologies”, said Moe Daher, Chairman and CEO of LEAD Technologies. “With the release of LEADTOOLS Version 21, I couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished and the powerful libraries that we’re making available to developers around the world.” New Intelligent Document Analyzer SDK The investments LEAD has been making in artificial intelligence and machine learning development are exemplified within the new Document Analyzer SDK. The Document Analyzer intelligently recognizes and acts on data from text-based office documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLX), PDFs, and document images (JPG, TIFF, PNG, PDF) without requiring a structured layout. The analyzer handles various data formats, including tables, text flows, and data across multiple lines. With predefined rulesets as well as the ability to add custom rulesets for user-specific data, the use cases for businesses and organizations are extensive. New ICR Technology for Handwritten Print and Cursive Recognition LEAD has been known as the leading provider of OCR technology for many years. With the release of Version 21, LEAD adds brand new ICR technology for remarkable unstructured handwritten print and cursive text recognition. With powerful automatic document and image pre-processing, LEADTOOLS ICR handles handwriting recognition even on noisy or low-resolution images. LEAD’s ICR raises the bar for what application developers can create by providing compr