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JPEG 2000
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The ImageGear.Formats.JPEG2K namespace allows you to use the diverse functionality of the JPEG 2000 wavelet-based compression technique. It provides the following advantages:

All these features outperform all other image compression techniques. JPEG 2000 image compression is best suited for compression either of sensitive images, because of the lossless feature, or for its excellent image quality at high compression ratios for uses such as transmission in low-bandwidth applications.

The ImageGear.Formats.JPEG2K namespace provides support for JPEG 2000 and JPX formats.

The JPEG 2000 standard provides a set of features that take advantage of new technologies, making them important to many high-end and emerging applications. It addresses areas where current standards fail to produce the best quality or performance and provides capabilities to markets that currently do not use compression. The markets and applications better served by the JPEG 2000 standard are Internet, color facsimile, printing, scanning (consumer and pre-press), digital photography, remote sensing, mobile, medical imagery, digital libraries/archives and eCommerce. Each application area imposes some requirements that the standard should fulfill.

The ImageGear JPEG2K namespace allows you to create an imaging application that supports JPEG 2000 Standard Part I (JP2, J2K, JPC) and JPEG 2000 Part II (JPX) image file formats.

To use the support for JPEG 2000 formats as well as efficiently and dynamically stream portions of a JPEG 2000 compressed image over a network, add JPEG 2000 formats to ImageGear's global formats list, as follows:

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ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Insert(0, ImGearJPEG2K.CreateJP2Format());
ImGearFileFormats.Filters.Insert(0, ImGearJPEG2K.CreateJPXFormat());

For saving images, refer to the topic Saving JPEG 2000 and JPX Images in Lossless Mode.

For more information about JP2 and JPX formats, visit: http://jpeg.org/jpeg2000/index.html.

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