The IIPImage server, iipsrv, is now available as an Alpine Linux package. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution that is designed to be small, simple, and secure and thanks to its small footprint is widely used for virtual machines and container environments, such as Docker. […]
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TIFF Image Encoding: Optimizing for Size, Speed and Quality

The TIFF image format is the recommended input format for use with IIPImage due to it’s flexibility, unrivaled speed as well as its ability to handle multiple bit depths, scientific imaging and multidimensional datasets. However, how a TIFF is encoded and structured can make a large difference to the resulting file size as well as […]
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iipsrv 1.2 released
Version 1.2 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for output in PNG and WebP formats, support for TIFF image stacks such […]
OME-TIFF Whole Slide Microscopy

The Open Microscopy Environment’s OME-TIFF specification is a TIFF-based format designed for whole-slide microscopy designed to replace various proprietary formats. It essentially consists of a standard TIFF file with one or more images to create a stack or time series of microscopy images. In addition, OME-TIFF defines an XML metadata structure which provides information on […]
iipsrv 1.1 released
Version 1.1 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for decoding JPEG2000 images via the OpenJPEG library, support for several new image processing functions, ICC profile […]
IIPImage on Solaris

A binary distribution of iipsrv version 1.0 is now available for the latest version of Solaris, Solaris 11.3, for x86 Solaris users. This distribution contains both 32bit and 64bit compiled IIPImage server binaries. […]
IIPImage now an Official FreeBSD Package

IIPImage is is now an official FreeBSD package. As of version 1.0 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server is now included as part of the FreeBSD ports package collection. […]
iipsrv 1.0

Version 1.0 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. […]
Web-Based Visualization of Very Large Scientific Astronomy Imagery

IIPImage has been adopted by a number of users in the astronomy community due to it’s ability to handle both very large images and scientific-grade quantitative data. […]
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Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives
Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives was a one-day workshop on JPEG2000 organized by the Wellcome Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition. IIPImage and a Performance Analysis of JPEG2000 Encoding Parameters … […]
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