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JPEG 2000 TRANSCODER NOW OFFERED BY PEGASUS IMAGING
Eliminate incremental degradation of JPEG 2000 image quality caused by expansion and recompression.


TAMPA, FL, September 27, 2006 – Pegasus Imaging Corporation, the leading provider of image compression technologies, today released the JPEG 2000 Transcoder for the PICTools™ MedX Software Development Kit (SDK). This JPEG 2000 technology allows many operations to be performed without decompressing and recompressing images, thus eliminating generational loss.

The Transcoder is a low-level C library that allows developers to build applications that convert JPEG 2000 images from one layout to another. Because the Transcoder does not decode and then re-encode images, no generational loss is introduced by the process. The JPEG 2000 Transcoder can change the number of layers, adjust image file size, compression rate, and overall quality, convert from lossless to lossy compression, re-encode for efficient JPIP transmission, and extract encoded thumbnails from images. These features can be particularly useful for backend medical image servers.

“The Transcoder benefits our licensed JPEG 2000 customers in many ways,” says Will Clonts, medical business development manager at Pegasus Imaging. “For example, it allows application developers to repurpose their source JPEG 2000 compressed data by repackaging the codestream for optimal JPIP communications and image viewing.”

The PICTools MedX software development kit provides imaging technology designed to enhance medical imaging applications. PICTools MedX contains low-level C libraries providing the fastest compression and decompression engines available. It offers both lossy and lossless DICOM-compliant formats, including 8-bit and 16-bit grayscale. This SDK is ideal for both still image and video. PICTools MedX provides total control over image manipulation, compression, decompression, and conversion. PICTools technologies are supported across multiple environments, including 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and more. PICTools MedX provides commercially supported software development libraries for lossy JPEG, lossless JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG-LS.

A complete product description and trial download can be found at www.accusoft.com/picmedx.htm. Contact sales@jpg.com for more information.

PICTools™ is a registered trademark of Pegasus Imaging Corporation.
About Pegasus Imaging
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Pegasus Imaging Corporation delivers digital imaging software development components, image compression and image editing technologies. The company exceeds speed and quality requirements for document imaging, forms processing, medical imaging, color/photo imaging, video applications and more. Technology is delivered as Microsoft .NET controls, COM controls, DLLs and applications. Multiple platforms are supported, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX and Mac OS X. Visit www.accusoft.com for more information.

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