Image Compression

General Image Compression

LEADTOOLS has been the leading supplier of standard-based and superior proprietary alternative image compression and decompression SDK for many commercial applications. It brings over decades of optimized code from compressing bi-tonal images used in document management to extended grayscale images widely used in life science industries.

The wide range of compression technology offered by LEAD can greatly improve performance of any imaging application or system. Various lossless compressions can be used for compressing image without compromising integrity of the image data; where as with little loss of image data an application or system can achieve tremendous performance gain by greatly reducing the image size, image load and save time and transmission time over the network.

LEADTOOLS offers optimized image compression with the following benefits to an application:

Decreased storage requirements
Improved transmission speed within a system, over networks and phone lines
Improved load/save time (i.e. relatively smaller of amount of data to read/write to disk)

Compare the compression formats supported by LEADTOOLS software:

Supported Compression Types
Compression Type	General Image Compression	Specialized Image compression
	Photography	Document	Banking	Medical
	1-32 bit color and grayscale	Bi-tonal (1-bit)	Check or 4-bit data	Extended (12-16 bit signed and unsigned grayscale)
JPEG (lossy and lossless)	Supported			Supported
JPEG 2000 (lossy and lossless)	Supported			Supported
JPEG XR	Supported			Supported
JPEG-LS	Supported			Supported
RLE or Pack Bits	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
LZW	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
ZIPLib (png)	Supported	Supported	Supported
CMP	Supported	Supported
CCITT		Supported
CCITT G3		Supported
CCITT G4		Supported
JBIG	Supported	Supported	Supported
JBIG2		Supported
ABC		Supported
ABIC		Supported	Supported
Compression/Decompression Interfaces
a.	Buffer to buffer
b.	Save/load to/from in-memory file
c.	Redirected from any location (i.e. Redirect I/O)
d.	Feed Load