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:
- Support for the GDAL I/O library
- Support for reading/writing JPEG2000 files with Kakadu
- Improved support for reading/writing tiff files
- A Reader/Writer for JPEG images based on the libjpeg-turbo open source high performance library. More info can be found here
- A NITF plugin based on NITRO. More info can be found here
- 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.
Releases and Downloads
Current stable release is 1.3.2. Check this page for additional information on how to download artifacts and binaries.
Getting Support
Mailing List
We have created two public mailing lists for ImageIO-Ext one for Developers and one for Users, you can find their homepages here below:
Contributing
We welcome contributions in any form:
- pull requests for new features
- pull requests for bug fixes
- pull requests for documentation
- funding for any combination of the above
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.
Professional Support
ImageIO-EXT has been developed by GeoSolutions as an internal effort to provide extensions, fixes and improvements for the standard Oracle Java Image I/O project