Raster Image File Formats

LEADTOOLS currently supports 150+ image file formats and sub formats, and continues to expand support for new formats and new format sub-types in response to the ever changing demands of developers worldwide.

With over 17 years in the field and thousands of customers in all areas of applications development, LEAD Technologies always strives to provide the most complete support for the tremendous variety of image formats available.

Each image format has its own unique set of load/save/display options, which may encompass varying types and/or degrees of compression, a range of image information bit-depths, progressive (multi-pass) image display, the ability to maintain multi-page or multi-channel images, animations, or non-image data, just to name a few.

You can count on LEADTOOLS to have the most thorough and highest performance implementation of image format specifications, and you can depend on LEADTOOLS to offer the most flexibility and control of these options to you, the software developer.

Image Formats: If you want to search for a particular format on this page, use your browser's search function (Internet Explorer is Ctrl+F).

RASTER Formats:

• Color and Grayscale
• Bitonal (Black and White)

MULTIMEDIA Formats:

VECTOR Formats:

RASTER Formats: File formats in this list are loaded and treated as raster bitmap images in memory.

Color and Grayscale

• AFP (PTOCA) Format (AFP)
• BMP Formats
• CIN
• Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) ****
• Corel Presentation Exchange Format(CMX)****
• CRW
• Microstation DGN (DGN) ****
• DCR
• DCS
• DICOM Format (DIC, DCM) **
• DjVu ® (Read-only)
• Dr. Halo (CUT)
• DRaWing (DRW) ****
• Drawing Interchange Format (DXF) ****
• DWF Format(DWF)
• DWG Format (DWG) ****
• ECW
• Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) ***
• ESRI Shape Format (SHP) ****
• Exif Formats (TIFF and JPG)
• FITS
• Flic Animation (FLC and FLI)
• Gerber (GBR) ****
• GIF and TIFF with LZW Compression
• Icons and Cursors (ICO and CUR)
• Windows Animated Cursor (ANI)
• Interchange File Formats (IFF)
• JBIG Format (JBG) *
• JPEG2000 Format (JP2)
• JPEG and LEAD Compressed (JPG and CMP)
• JPX Format (JPEG2000 Part 2)
• KDC
• Kodak Formats (PCD) and (FPX)
• LEAD Wavelet (CMW) ***
• Macintosh Pict Format (PCT) ****

• Microsoft Windows Clipboard (CLP)
• MODCA PTOCA
• MPEG1 / MPEG2 +
• MrSID ® (Read-only)
• MS HD Photo Support
• PS
• PSP
• PCX Formats (PCX and DCX)
• PhotoShop 3.0 Format (PSD)
• PLT (HPGL) ****
• PNG Compressed Icon Support
• Portable Bitmap Utilities (PBM, PPM, PNM and PGM)
• Portable Document Format (PDF) ***
• Portable Network Graphics Format(PNG)
• Printer Command Language Format (PCL) ****
• RTF
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) ****
• Scitex Continuous Tone Format (SCT)
• Structured Fax File format (SFF)
• Silicon Graphics Image Format (SGI)
• SUN Raster Format (RAS)
• TIFF-RX
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
• Truevision TARGA Format (TGA)
• TXT
• Windows AVI Format (AVI) +Uncompressed / Compressed ++
• Windows Metafile Formats (WMF and EMF)
• Wireless Bitmap (WBMP)
• WordPerfect Format (WPG)
• WordPerfect Vector Format (VWPG)****
• WMZ
• XPicMap (XPM)
• XML Paper Specification (XPS) *
• X WindowDump (XWD)

Bitonal (Black and White)

• CALS Raster (Type 1, 2, 3 and 4)
• Image Object Content Architecture Format(IOCA/MODCA)
• Intergraph Format (ITG)
• LaserView LaserData (Read Only)
• LEAD 1-Bit Format (CMP)
• JBIG*
• JBIG2*

• Microsoft Fax (AWD)
• Miscellaneous 1-Bit Formats( MAC,IMG, and MSP )
• SMP Format (SMP)
• TIFF CCITT and Other FAX Formats
• XBitMap Format (XBM)
• ABIC*
• LEADTOOLS ABC**

MULTIMEDIA Formats

Support for the following formats are provided through DirectShow filters. For more detail on these supported formats by the Multimedia Toolkit, click here

• Adobe HD
• AVCHD
• AVI
• Mpeg1 Layer - 3 Audio (MP3)
• WAV
• Windows Media Formats (WMA, WMV, ASF)
• MPEG1 Video
• DVD
• ISO (MP4, 3GPP, AAC, AVC1, MOV)

• DVSD
• Still Image Formats (TIFF, JPEG, BMP,PSP thumbnail, etc.)
• AC3
• Quicktime 2.0
• MPEG-2
• DivX/XVID
• OGG
• DICOM support
• MPEG-2 DICOM

VECTOR Formats Included in the Vector Imaging Pro Toolkit

• Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
• Corel Presentation Exchange Format(CMX)
• DRaWing (DRW)
• Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)
• DWF Format (DWF)
• DWG Format (DWG)
• ESRI Shape Format (SHP)
• Gerber (GBR)
• Macintosh Pict Format (PCT)

• Microstation DGN (DGN)
• NAP
• Printer Command Language Format (PCL)
• PLT (HPGL)
• Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)
• TIFF DXF
• Vector Dump Format (VEC)
• Windows Metafile Formats (WMF and EMF)
• WordPerfect Format (VWPG)

LEAD is constantly adding the support for new file formats, and "flavor" support to formats already supported. The extensive format support provided by LEADTOOLS will give your application the flexibility to support almost any image you encounter.

The above feature is included in the following products

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging SDK	$495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging SDK Pro	$995		Free Trial
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.