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 other 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 imaging, digital libraries / archives and E-commerce. Each application area imposes some requirements that the standard should fulfill.
The ImageGear JPEG 2000 component allows you to use the diverse functionality of the JPEG 2000 wavelet-based compression technique. It provides the following advantages:
- Excellent image quality at high compression ratios
- Fast compression and decompression
- Both lossless (guaranteed pixel identity) and lossy image compression options
- User-controlled compression ratio
- Quicklook generation and scaled image reconstruction based on embedded coding techniques
- Elimination of JPEG-like blocking artifacts
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 JPEG 2000 component, in addition to providing support for JPEG 2000, also provides partial support for JPEG 2000 Part II (JPX).
See Also:
Advanced Image Formats > JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 Component API Reference