Overview of LEADTOOLS JBIG and JBIG2 Image Compression SDK Technology
LEADTOOLS completely supports bitonal, grayscale and color image data, and can make full use of JBIG and JBIG2 compression and decompression technology. LEADTOOLS also supports the progressive capability of JBIG, which is the ability to store and send multiple representations of images at different resolutions without any extra storage overhead.
- JBIG and JBIG2 image compression technology available as C DLL, C++ classes, .NET classes, .NET Compact Framework, WIC codecs, WF activities and WCF services
- Add JBIG and JBIG2 image compression to single and multi-threaded applications
- Native 32 and 64 bit binaries for JBIG and JBIG2 image compression
To achieve the highest compression ratios possible, LEADTOOLS takes full advantage of all the functional blocks of the JBIG compression standard:
- The Adaptive Arithmetic Encoder, which presents the heart of this format, has the ability to predict and hence encode future data symbols based on the data which is being currently encoded.
- The Adaptive Template Block provides real coding gain for images rendered by grayscale with halftoning. This gain ratio approaches 80% in some situations.
- The Typical Prediction Block speeds implementations and provides some coding gain.
- The Resolution Reduction Block is used to get a lower resolution version of an image so that no loss of data is encountered. This is mainly important for bi-level images, to avoid any deletion of thin lines.
- The Deterministic Prediction Block provides good coding gain when saving more than one resolution layer in the same file.
LEADTOOLS also supports JBIG2. JBIG2 is a raster file format created by ISO/IEC 14492 and is an industry standard lossless and lossy compressed file format for bitonal image data. LEADTOOLS supports the various JBIG2 flavors of text and generic region encoding and decoding procedures based on sequential coding of the image pixels using arithmetic coding. Saving images in as JBIG2 results in smaller image file sizes when compared to other industry standard compressed formats such as JBIG, CCITT G3 or G4. JBIG2 can compress bitonal images 2 - 5 times better than the same image compressed with CCITT G4 compression. .
JBIG Defined:
JBIG is an acronym for 'Joint Bi-level Image experts Group'. This was a group of experts nominated by national standards bodies and major companies to work to produce standards for bi-level image coding. The JBIG group has developed IS 11544 (ITU-T T.82) standard for the lossless compression of a bi-level image. JBIG can also be used for coding grayscale and color images with limited numbers of bits per pixel. JBIG is similar to Group 3 or Group 4 fax, but offers between 20% and 80% improvement in compression over these methods. JBIG compression averages about a 20:1 over the original uncompressed image.

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