Includes speed and accuracy improvements to LEAD OCR Engine (formerly Advantage Engine).
Features
New Platforms:
Developers can now write a unified code base and simultaneously target even more platforms and devices falling under the ever-broadening .NET Standard umbrella.
- .NET Framework - Windows
- .NET Standard
- .NET Core - Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Xamarin - iOS, Android, and UWP
- UWP (Universal Windows Platform)
New in Document Engine:
- Recognition Engines
- Speed and accuracy improvements to LEAD OCR Engine (formerly Advantage Engine).
- CMC-7 MICR Font.
- Added North American Driver's License Barcode Decoder to Barcode Engine (AAMVA specification).
- Answer Area and OMR Date fields for high-level OMR Forms Recognition.
- Document Viewer (HTML5/JavaScript)
- Improved speed and accuracy for internal SVG Engine.
- Printing with DPI.
- Printing Visible Area/Screenshot.
- Document Formats
- Added full support for charts and shapes to all Office formats.
- Reduced PDF output file size.
- Optimized loading speed for multi-page Word DOC/DOCX files.
- Improved matching of original document when writing text with a dark/light background.
- Added 3JS (three.js) and STL format support.
- New Image Processing Functions
- Detect Document.
- Detect Business Card.
- Additional updates to the Document Engine
- Redesigned the WPF ImageViewer to include multiple items, SVG rendering, and User-defined XAML Content.
- Load EMF and EMF+ files as SVG.
- Freehand Annotation Selection Tool.
- Speed improvements to Median filter.
- Speed optimizations of 30% for loading document and vector files formats.
New in Imaging Engine:
- New Image Processing Functions.
- Wiener Filter.
- Edge Enhancement.
- Additional updates to the Imaging Engine
- Background color detection in document images.
- Image Stitching and scrolling for image viewers.
- D2D Drawing surface for WPF controls.
- Mouse Wheel Zoom support for Magnifying Glass.
Changes to the LEADTOOLS Product Line. In Version 20, the OCR engines and respective add-ons were renamed.
- LEAD Engine (previously Advantage Engine)
- LEADTOOLS OCR Module - LEAD Engine.
- OmniPage Engine (previously Professional Engine)
- LEADTOOLS OCR Module - OmniPage Engine.
- LEADTOOLS OCR Module - OmniPage Engine with Additional Languages (includes LEADTOOLS OCR Module - OmniPage Engine).
- LEADTOOLS ICR Module - OmniPage Engine (includes LEADTOOLS OCR Module - OmniPage Engine).