<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Hi Folks,</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div><br></div><div><span>Grok JPEG 2000 library v9.7.2 has just been released.</span></div><div><span>This open source project is now significantly faster</span></div><div><span>than the closed source proprietary Kakadu library v8.05</span></div><div><span>in a number of workflows involving large single and multi tiled images.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>You can check out the benchmarks here:</span></div><div><span><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok">https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><span>Release is available at :</span></div><div><span><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok/releases/tag/v9.7.2">https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok/releases/tag/v9.7.2</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><span>GDAL PR in progress here:</span></div><div><span><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5117">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5117</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><span>Aaron</span><br></div>
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