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Developer(s)	David Taubman

Stable release	6.4.1

Written in	C++
Operating system	Multi. Unix/Windows and other
Platform	x86, ?
License	closed source
Website	www.kakadusoftware.com

Kakadu is an closed-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. It implements ISO/IEC 15444-1: part 1 (fully), part 2 (partly), part 3 (partly). It is developed by David Taubman from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He also is a author of EBCOT, algorithm used in jpeg2000.

Kakadu is named after Kakadu park.

It is used in Apple QuickTime.

Kakadu library is heavy optimized and is fully compliant implementation. Also, it has build-in multithreading. In the study of 2007, kakadu outperforms Jasper jpeg2000 library.