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Developer(s)David Taubman
Stable release6.4.1
Written inC++
Operating systemMulti. Unix/Windows and other
Platformx86, ?
Licenseclosed source
Websitewww.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.

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