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PICTools Photo
Cross-platform C/C++ imaging SDK
- HD Photo (JPEG XR) - HDP, WDP
- Provides support for fully standards based JPEG XR
- Higher image quality, greater preservation of data and advanced features for today's digital imaging applications
- A still image compression algorithm for continuous tone photographic images
- Features lossy and lossless compression, multiple colorspaces, a wide dynamic range, and extensive metadata support
- Performance optimized
- JPEG (Progressive)
- JPEG (Sequential) – 24-bit RGB, 8-bit grayscale
- Patented technology for enhanced JPEG decompression will remove block artifacts from over-compressed JPEG images without blurring
- IPTC metadata support within JPEG
- JPEG (Progressive) to JPEG (Sequential) Transcoder
- JPEG 2000 - 24-bit RGB, 8-bit grayscale
- Supports a user-configurable number of threads per operation for optimal throughput on multicore CPUs
- Metadata support
- JPIP Client/Server Technology for JPEG 2000
- Ideal for large images
- Provides sophisticated imaging technology enabling engineers to design and build a JPEG 2000 JPIP implementation wholly in accordance with the JPEG 2000, Part 9 standard
- The JPIP standard is designed to speed optimize network viewing of user selectable resolutions and areas of interest on JPEG 2000 images
- Provides a complete JPIP API for client and server side deployments, and provides JPEG 2000 compliant compression, JPIP request and receive, and decompression of JPEG 2000 images
- The Accusoft Pegasus JPIP implementation benefits from many years of experience working with streamed multi-resolution image formats
- Learn more about JPIP (here)
- PCX
- Camera RAW
- Automatic detection and decompression of vendor-specific Camera RAW photos from Canon, Fuji, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and more (See list of makes and models)
- PNG
- TGA
- TIFF
- Metadata support
- BMP
- DCX
- ePIC (Proprietary)
- Supports PIC format compression, replacing the JPEG Huffman encoder with the proprietary ELS entropy encoder for 15% more compression
- Can be losslessly converted back to JPEG format using Op_RORE
- GIF / LZW
- Advanced JPEG Editing within Compressed JPEG DCT Space
- Provides JPEG editing directly on JPEG compressed data thereby avoiding the quality loss of recompression and color conversion normally associated with editing JPEG images (more)
- Auto Red Eye Detection and Removal with Confidence Reporting
- Adjust for glare, darkness, and red face
- Decompresses the eye area, makes the corrections, recompresses the area, and replaces the area with the improved image
- Remove compression artifacts
- Auto Color Leveling
- Color Conversion, Palette Creation, Rotation
- Deskew
- Overlap filter options
- Post processing filter strength settings
- Embedded orientation flags
- Tiling
- Subband control
- EXIF Metadata Editing
- Image Resizing
- IPTC metadata support within JPEG
- Regional Image Compression
- Reduce compressed JPEG file size while preserving image quality by applying the optimal compression settings to one or more areas of an image
- Reorient JPEG Images
- Sub-Image Processing
- Quickly decode and view a rectangle within a JPEG image without decoding the rest of the image data.
- Buffer to buffer image processing for maximum flexibility
- The high-performance API (Application Programmers Interface) offers total control of image processing functions
PICTools Photo Compression File Size and Speed Comparison Chart
| Source Image | Parameters | Lossy JPEG | Lossy J2K* | Lossy JPEG XR | JPEG Lossless | J2K Lossless | Lossless JPEG XR |
| 512 x 512 8-bit gray 256 KB |
Compress Time (ms) | 1 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 11 |
| Size (KB) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 119 | 97 | 104 | |
| Compression Ratio | 13.1:1 | 13.2:1 | 13.2:1 | 2.2:1 | 2.7:1 | 2.5:1 | |
| Decompress Time (ms) | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 8 | |
| PSNR | 44.4 | 45.8 | 45.3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 2048 x 2048 8-bit gray 4,974 KB |
Compress Time (ms) | 27 | 138 | 101 | 46 | 253 | 176 |
| Size (KB) | 263 | 263 | 260 | 1,809 | 1,425 | 1,550 | |
| Compression Ratio | 16:1 | 15.9:1 | 16.2:1 | 2.3:1 | 2.9:1 | 2.7:1 | |
| Decompress Time (ms) | 11 | 52 | 66 | 30 | 196 | 120 | |
| PSNR | 45.3 | 46.2 | 46.2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 512 x 512 12-bit gray 512 KB |
Compress Time (ms) | 13 | 30 | N/A | 5 | 34 | N/A |
| Size (KB) | 106 | 106 | N/A | 244 | 214 | N/A | |
| Compression Ratio | 4.9:1 | 4.9:1 | N/A | 2.1:1 | 2.5:1 | N/A | |
| Decompress Time (ms) | 2 | 16 | N/A | 3 | 27 | N/A | |
| PSNR | 57.7 | 63.3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 2048 x 2048 12-bit gray 9,948 KB |
Compress Time (ms) | 35 | 469 | N/A | 70 | 535 | N/A |
| Size (KB) | 1,707 | 1,707 | N/A | 3,778 | 3,424 | N/A | |
| Compression Ratio | 4.9:1 | 4.9:1 | N/A | 2.2:1 | 2.4:1 | N/A | |
| Decompress Time (ms) | 35 | 241 | N/A | 34 | 405 | N/A | |
| PSNR | 57.4 | 62.4 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 2048 x 2048 16-bit gray 9,948 KB |
Compress Time (ms) | N/A | 577 | 198 | 92 | 821 | 206 |
| Size (KB) | N/A | 2,274 | 2,274 | 5,788 | 5,535 | 5,517 | |
| Compression Ratio | N/A | 3.7:1 | 3.7:1 | 1.4:1 | 1.5:1 | 1.5:1 | |
| Decompress Time (ms) | N/A | 294 | 139 | 62 | 591 | 143 | |
| PSNR | N/A | 68.9 | 68.7 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| * For ease of comparison, the lossy J2K images were compressed to Lossy JPEG compression ratio. All times measured using 32-bit Intel. | |||||||









