JPEG2000 Image Conversion and Viewers

Snowbound Software’s RasterMaster Imaging SDK for Windows® (ActiveX and DLL) and .NET® enables developers to work with JPEG2000 (JP2K or JP2) for 24-bit color and 8-bit grayscale images.

• Our RasterMaster Imaging SDK allows you to build viewing, conversion and over 140 other expert imaging functions securely into your custom applications to support JPEG2000 files.

• SnowBatch, our batch conversion application, provides you the capability to perform rapid batch conversion right from your desktop or server.  The easy-to-use interface will enable you to quickly convert all your JPEG2000 files to formats suitable for viewing or storage.
  

What is JPEG2000 Compression?

JPEG2000’s wavelet-based compression significantly reduces the amount of memory needed to archive detailed grayscale and color images.  JPEG2000 achieves greater compression with superior image quality compared to all existing standard encoding techniques for these types of images. This makes it an ideal format for storing photographs, pre-press artwork, detailed color and grayscale scanned documents, and other large, high-quality images. The higher-quality, smaller files generated by JPEG2000, compared to standard JPEG files, may require greater compression and decompression times.

Note: JPEG2000 read/write functionality is an added cost option for all of Snowbound’s products.

Important: As we all know document and image specifications are intentionally loosely written and rarely updated. As a result many applications create documents “incorrectly” and they do not adhere to the latest specifications.

In order to maintain the highest ethical standards and help provide customers with the most positive user experience, Snowbound Software recommends that, as part of your purchase process, you test your own sample documents against our products.  Snowbound, unlike most competitors, develops its own technology. If in the rare case you come across a problem or non-conforming document or image, we can often fix it.

P = Plus   J = in Java		Win		Java		.NET		Unix
E = Extended   D = In development		READ	WRITE	READ	WRITE	READ	WRITE	READ	WRITE
O = Optional
Format	Ext
JPEG2000	jp2	O	O			O	O

Complete Format Matrix