LEADTOOLS JPEG2000 Image Comparison The following example demonstrates the compression power of JPEG2000

ORIGINAL UNCOMPRESSED IMAGE SIZE -15466248 BYTES

JPEG 2000 employs a new type of lossless compression algorithm than the one used in traditional JPEG compression.

Whereas traditional JPEG compresses images with a scheme called discrete cosine transformation (DCT), JPEG 2000 uses the newer wavelet based compression.

One of the drawbacks of the original jpeg compression is that it tends to cause visible artifacting with varying degrees of lossiness. Images suffer degradation to the point of loss of visibility at extremely high compression rates. Wavelet compression, on the other hand, uses mathematical expressions to encode the image in a continuous stream. Depending on the amount of compression the user applies, the result can be completely lossless (no artifacts) and yet produce extremely small files. (see above)

JPEG2000 write support is included in the following products

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
The following toolkits have read-only support for JPEG 2000
LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging SDK	$495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro SDK	$995		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro	$1995		Free Trial
The following toolkits have read / write support for JPEG 2000
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK	†$2495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite	†$3995		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK	†$4495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite	†$7995		Free Trial

†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.