Development status Active | Written in C | |
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Original author(s) Initial release December 15, 2005 (2005-12-15) Stable release 2.1.2 / September 28, 2016; 5 months ago (2016-09-28) Operating system | ||
OpenJPEG is an open-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. As of version 2.1 released in April 2014, it is officially conformant with the JPEG 2000 Part-1 standard. It was subsequently adopted by ImageMagick instead of JasPer in 6.8.8-2 and approved as new reference software for this standard in July 2015.
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Support for lossless 16-bit images
Unlike JasPer, another open-source JPEG 2000 implementation, OpenJPEG fully respects the JPEG 2000 specification and can compress/decompress lossless 16-bit images.
Origin
OpenJPEG is a fork of libj2k, a JPEG-2000 codec library written by David Janssens during his master thesis at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2001.
References
OpenJPEG Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA