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LizardTech Inc. and LEAD Technologies Team up to Advance Digital Imaging Solutions through new LEADTOOLS Version 14 Release
LEAD Technologies®‘ feature-packed release supports powerful DjVu® and MrSID®formats for dramatically smaller file sizes, true portability, and enhanced viewing.
Seattle, Washington, USA – December 15, 2003 - LizardTech®, Inc. – a leading developer of digital imaging software and viewing tools – today announced its DjVu and MrSID file formats are supported within new LEADTOOLS® Version 14, empowering software developers to work far more efficiently than before.
“The addition of the DjVu and MrSID file formats is part of a significant document imaging focus being delivered by LEADTOOLS Version 14,” says Catherine Whitten, LEAD Technologies Marketing Manager. “LEAD is taking advantage of the exceptional distribution capabilities that meet the demands of the document imaging community and other key market sectors served by LEAD Technologies. We were very pleased to include both DjVu and MrSID formats within the new release.”
LizardTech’s MrSID format – the-de facto industry standard for geospatial imaging – empowers developers to work more collaboratively and cost effectively, thanks to its unique compression capabilities. Using MrSID, users can instantaneously view and manipulate images, locally and over networks, without sacrificing quality or wasting time. MrSID also enables seamless browsing, updating, and easier archiving. You can pan and zoom seamlessly; multi-resolution capabilities enable you to create clearer images with each mouse click.
LizardTech’s open-format DjVu technology transforms the process of working with digital images and scanned color image documents, and facilitates highly accurate optical character recognition (OCR) – even when using color image documents. DjVu image documents are the smallest in the industry, up to 1,000 times smaller than TIFF files, and anywhere from 5 to 100 times smaller than JPEGs or PDFs. Using DjVu, users can work more intuitively by eliminating repetitive tasks, freeing up hours of time for innovation and invention. Anyone can access DjVu and MrSID files; free plug-ins are available at www.lizardtech.com.
“LEAD Technologies shares our commitment to creating innovative software solutions that meet the needs of developers who want to reduce their time to market and realize a rapid ROI,” says Carlos Domingo, LizardTech president and CEO. “The LEADTOOLS v14 release brings significant improvements for document imaging and geospatial markets, and we are proud to have LizardTech be part of it.”
About LEAD Technologies
Since 1990, LEAD Technologies, Inc. has been a global leader in the imaging developer toolkit market, providing programmers with feature-rich tools to “image-enable” their software applications. LEAD Technologies pioneered the fastest software-only image compression and continues to lead the field in advancing new imaging technologies and offering those technologies to programmers world wide.
About LEADTOOLS
LEADTOOLS is a family of comprehensive toolkits designed to help programmers integrate raster, document, medical, multimedia, Internet and vector imaging into their applications quickly and easily. LEADTOOLS gives developers the most flexible and powerful imaging technology available offering imaging technology for scanning, color conversion, display/special effects, annotations, image processing, compression, image format import/export filters, database imaging, printing, Imaging Common Dialogs, OCR, OMR, ICR, screen capture and much more. The result of fourteen years of development, the toolkit literally puts millions of lines of code at the fingertips of application developers. Included with the toolkit is extensive sample source code for Visual Basic .NET, C/C++, Visual C++ (MFC), C++ Builder, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, Access, Delphi, and VB and Java script, and support for Visual Studio 6.0 database connectivity (Oracle, SQL, OLE DB, ODBC, and JET).
About LizardTech
Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.
About Celartem
Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.
