Posted by Neredbojias on 09/27/07 13:27

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:47:52
GMT scribed:

> For fingerprint images WSQ (Wavelet Scalar Quantization) is superior
> to other lossy compression methods, such as JPEG, and was chosen by
> FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation) as the fingerprint image
> compression standard. WSQ is a lossy compression method that is
> well-suited for preserving the very high resolution details of
> grayscale
> images while maintaining high compression ratios of typically 12:1 to
> 15:1.
>
> Cognaxon WSQ image library provides the easy way to add WSQ image
> format support to your software projects. WSQ image library reads and
> converts between WSQ and 11 other graphic file formats, it is small
> (~1.5 Megabyte) and fast.
>
> Supported formats for reading: WSQ,BMP, TIFF,TIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF,
> TGA, PCX, RGB, PSD, CEL, IFF.
> Supported formats for writing: WSQ, BMP, PNG, RGB, TGA.
>
> Adding WSQ image library to your software project is very easy.
> Only 2-3 steps and several lines of code are needed.
>
> Sample projects are provided for:
> GNU C Compiler GCC,
> Trolltech Qt C++,
> Sun Java,
> PHP.
>
> To find out more about using WSQ image library in PHP projects please
> read the pages:
> http://www.cognaxon.com/index.php?page=wsqlibrary_forlinux#PHP
> and
> http://www.cognaxon.com/index.php?page=wsqlib_phpnotes
>
> For latest version and more information please visit:
> http://www.cognaxon.com

That's nice but the only time I take pictures of fingers is when there're
interesting boogars on them which look better a little blurry.

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Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.

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