File Format ABC

LEADTOOLS ABC (Advanced Bitonal Compression), a proprietary 1-bit compression format developed by LEAD Technologies, is a major breakthrough in document capture technology. This set of advanced compression algorithms out performs all industry standard compression types. With LEADTOOLS ABC, customers will be able to realize file sizes 4 to 5 times smaller than the files sizes generated by standard 1-bit compression types such as CCITT Group 4. LEADTOOLS ABC was specifically designed to allow efficient network transmission of scanned manuals, books, check images and other document types. This superior compression allows the resulting images to be efficiently transmitted, viewed and manipulated over local area networks and the Internet. You can read and write files in this format.

The power behind LEADTOOLS ABC technology is LEAD's new LOSSLESS black and white image compression. LEAD Technologies has been an early leader in turning the latest advancements in image compression into productive, functional implementations for commercial use. In addition, this SDK supports compressed ABC in a TIFF file, as single page or multipage TIFF. With ABC, there are also lossy options. You can specify the quality factor using theQualityFactor.

LEADTOOLS ABC helps companies optimize their scanned documents to save transmission/ bandwidth usage and server space, which in turn, results in savings of time and money. Many financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies back up their important documents by scanning them and archiving the resulting images to servers as TIFF files or other common bitonal file formats. Using LEADTOOLS ABC compression, server space can be significantly reduced, therefore eliminating the need for additional servers. In addition, if the images are being transmitted over the internet, the smaller file sizes will save transmission costs and time since smaller file sizes transmit much faster using less bandwidth.

Features

Refer to the following chart to compare how LEADTOOLS ABC compares to the industry standard 1-bit compression formats!

LEADTOOLS ABC compares to the industry standard 1-bit compression formats

For a list of products, refer to the Products Overview at www.leadtools.com/home2/VertMkts/LTProdOvrvw.htm.

Note: LEADTOOLS ABC Read support is available in all products LEADTOOLS ABC Write support is available in LEADTOOLS Document SDK and up.

The default extension used by this format is: ABC.

File constants associated with this file format are:

Constant

Read Support

Write Support

Description

Abc

1 BPP

1 BPP

LEAD Advanced Bitonal Compression 1 bit, lossless compression.

Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Abc.dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application .

Related Formats: ABIC, CMP - LEAD 1-Bit Format, JBIG Format (JBG), JBIG2 Format (JB2), FAX - Raw Fax Format, TIFF - Tagged Image File Format / CCITT.

Platform Support

Extension Module Value Win32 Win64 Net32 Net64 Linux Android Apple UWP MimeType Friendly Name
Abc ABC 32 image/x-abc LEAD Advanced Bitonal Compression
Jbig2 JB2 183 image/x-jbig2 JB2 - JBIG2 format
Tif TIF 3 image/tiff TIFF - Tagged Image File Format

For a complete list for supported file formats, see Summary of All Supported File Formats.

For details of the file formats supported across products and platforms, refer to File Format Comparison Chart.

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