An Image is a numeric representation (normally it is binary) of a two-dimensional image. Depending on whether the image resolution is fixed (non changeable), it may be of vector or raster type. Without qualifications, the term “image” usually refers to raster images also called bitmap images.

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What is the Dicom image Format?

Introduction to DICOM DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine and is a worldwide standard that defines how to store, exchange, and...
Georgia Ingham
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How to generate smaller PNG files in Java

Introduction As you may already know, PNG is a lossless image format which has comparatively larger file sizes when compared to JPEG. But often PNG...
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Why we have abandoned ImageIO and JAI for Image…

Introduction At IDRsolutions, we are now using our own Java Image Library (JDeli, the best enterprise-level Java image library for performance and efficiency) as...
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What are Indexed Colorspaces?

What are Indexed Colorspaces? Indexed Colorspaces store a list of the colors used and reference that list to get the color of each pixel,...
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Image Optimisation: What PNGQuant is and why you should…

What is PNGQuant? PNGQuant is a free to use, open source (available under a BSD-like license) command line utility and library for converting PNG...
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How do Filter and DecodeParms Objects change a PDF…

One of the hardest things I found to get to grips with on the PDF File format was using filters and DecodeParams together. So...
Mark Stephens
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