What is JPEG 2000? JPEG 2000 Image File Format Description

What is JPEG 2000?

JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard. The file extension for this format is .jp2.

JPEG 2000 can operate at higher compression ratios without generating the characteristic 'blocky and blurry' artifacts of the original DCT-based JPEG standard. It also allows more sophisticated progressive downloads.

Part of JPEG 2000 has been published as an ISO standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1:2000. JPEG 2000 is not yet widely supported in web browsers, and hence is not generally used on the World Wide Web.

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Total Image Converter supports the following conversions with JPEG 2000 files:

JP2 to BMP
JP2 to ICO
JP2 to JPEG
JP2 to JPEG 2000
JP2 to PNG
JP2 to GIF
JP2 to PCX
JP2 to TGA
JP2 to TIFF
JP2 to RAW

J2K to BMP
J2K to ICO
J2K to JPEG
J2K to JPEG 2000
J2K to PNG
J2K to GIF
J2K to PCX
J2K to TGA
J2K to TIFF
J2K to RAW