LEADTOOLS CMW An alternative format to JPEG2000

LEADTOOLS 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 the LEADTOOLS CMW is just what you need.

CMW Overview

CMW is an advanced compression that is better than JPEG2000 in quality, speed and compression ratios. The LEADTOOLS CMW includes support for multiple resolutions. This makes 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 image.

And, just like with JPEG2000, 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:

• Targetfile size
• Compression ratio
• Quality Factor

You can even specify to use 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 JPEG2000

• CMW files are smaller than JPEG2000 files of comparable quality
• CMW files can be loaded and saved faster than comparable JPEG2000 files.
• Since there are fewer parameters to set, CMW files are easier to use.

This add-on is related to the following products

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
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.