LEAD CMW Format and CompressionAn alternative format to JPEG 2000

LEAD CMW compression/decompression outperforms all other known image compression algorithms in quality and compression ratio. In other words, if you need the best quality images while using the least amount of disk space, then LEAD CMW is just what you need.

CMW Overview

CMW is an advanced wavelet compression that outperforms JPEG 2000 in quality, speed and compression ratios. LEAD CMW includes support for multiple resolutions making your applications faster and more memory efficient because the entire file does not have to be loaded and decompressed just to load a low resolution version of a high resolution image.

And, just like with JPEG 2000, you have the ability to specify a progression order, giving you control over the display effect during a progressive decompression. The available progression orders are:

• Quality Axis - The image starts blurred and the sharpness increases as more image data is received.
• Resolution Axis - The image is loaded as a smaller version and the physical pixel size increases as more image data is received.
• Color Axis - The image is loaded one color plane at a time. The image starts loading as a grayscale image and the color will fill in as more image data is received.
• Position Axis - The image is loaded as blocks. As more image data is received, more blocks are displayed.

Additionally, you have complete control of the resulting file size and quality. You can choose to compress a file based on any of the following:

• Target file size
• Compression ratio
• Quality factor

You can even specify lossless compression so that when the compressed image is decompressed it will be exactly the same as the original image.

Key features that make CMW better than JPEG 2000

• CMW files are smaller than JPEG 2000 files of comparable visual quality
• CMW files can be loaded and saved faster than comparable JPEG 2000 files.

LEAD CMW is included with the following products

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
†LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro	$995		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS Document Imaging	$2495		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS Recognition	$3995		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Enterprise	$4995		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging	$4995		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging	$7995		Free Trial

†Hybrid License. License includes development seat, application license, unlimited internal deployment and up to 1000 commercial desk top deployments/5 commercial production server deployments per year. Annual and multi-year unlimited deployment licenses are available for commercial deployment. Please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative with any questions. Click here for more information on LEADTOOLS License Agreement.

* Deployment requires runtime license. Marked toolkits require runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative. Click here for more information on LEADTOOLS Runtime Licensing requirements.