About

About

IIPImage is an advanced high-performance feature-rich image server system for web-based streamed viewing and zooming of ultra high-resolution images. It is designed to be fast and bandwidth-efficient with low processor and memory requirements. The system can comfortably handle gigapixel size images as well as advanced image features such as 8, 16 and 32 bits per channel, CIELAB colorimetric images and scientific imagery such as multispectral images and digital elevation maps.

Streaming is tile-based, making it possible to view, navigate and zoom in real-time around gigapixel size images that would be impossible to download and manipulate on the local machine. It also makes the system very scalable as the number of image tile downloads will remain the same regardless of the size of the source image.

Source images can be in either TIFF or JPEG2000 format. Whole images or regions within images can also be rapidly and dynamically resized and exported by the server from a single source image without the need to store multiple files in various sizes.

See demo page to see some more examples of use. IIPImage is used around the world by a wide variety of users including museums, scientific imaging, astronomy, medical imaging, geographical information systems and many many others. See also our links page for examples or read more about the history of IIPImage.

Features

• Fast lightweight Fast CGI server module that can be embedded in most web servers (Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Nginx etc) or used standalone
• Instant dynamic generation of overviews or details at any resolution
• Allows easy viewing of extremely large images (terabyte size) with low processor and memory requirements
• One single image source file, not thousands of small separate files
• Standard TIFF-based image format that can be created, read and manipulated by most image processing tools (Photoshop, ImageMagick, GIMP, VIPS etc)
• JPEG2000 support
• 8, 16 or 32 bits per channel image handling
• Greyscale, sRGB and CIE L*a*b* colour spaces
• ICC profile support
• JPEG, PNG or WebP output
• Multispectral imaging
• Image blending
• Multiple client APIs with support for the IIP, IIIF, Zoomify and DeepZoom APIs
• Dynamic watermarking
• Support for Memcached, a distributed memory object caching system
• Secure image distribution: only JPEG-compressed views of the image are sent to the client. The full-resolution image does not need to be accessible
• Panoramic 3D object image sequences

Latest News

See the blog for the latest news, tutorials, guest posts and more!

Latest articles: Version 1.2 of the IIPImage Server Released, OME-TIFF Whole Slide Microscopy, Image Comparison of Ancient Mummy Portraits: The Appear Project, IIIF – The International Image Interoperability Framework, IIPImage Case Study: National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Cranach Digital Archive, IIPImage now an Official Fedora, Redhat and CentOS Package and Using IIPImage to serve dynamic responsive images.

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Finding Out More

To find out more, see the documentation. See this overview to help you get started.

Download

The IIPImage server and viewers can be downloaded from the Download section.