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Daniele Romagnoli edited this page Sep 19, 2019 · 58 revisions

The ImageIO-Ext Project

The ImageIO-Ext is an Open Source project that provides extensions, fixes and improvements for the standard Oracle Java Image I/O project such as:

  1. Support for the GDAL I/O library
  2. Support for reading/writing JPEG2000 files with Kakadu
  3. Improved support for reading/writing tiff files
  4. A Reader/Writer for JPEG images based on the libjpeg-turbo open source high performance library. More info can be found here
  5. A NITF plugin based on NITRO. More info can be found here
  6. A new PNG Writer with improved performances. More informations can be found here.

The ImageIO library provides support for encoding/decoding raster formats in Java. Some useful documentation on ImageIO can be found here.

See the documentation below for more information on the ImageIO-Ext project.

Working with ImageIO-Ext

Here below you can find links with useful information for working with ImageIO-Ext.

Important Notice

In case you want to enable ECW Decode support, it is mandatory you agree with the ECW Eula. Moreover if you want to support ECW Decode in a Server application you need to BUY a license from ERDAS.

License

ImageIO-Ext is released partly under LGPL license partly under the BSD license (namely, derivative work from imageio source code). Refer to the code tree for more information.