Cognaxon WSQ viewer reads and converts between WSQ and 33 other graphic file formats. WSQ viewer is small (approx. 2 Megabytes) and fast, has image zoom toolbar and supports accelerated navigation through files in the directory using keys page up / page down / home / end . After installation of WSQ viewer *.wsq files can be easily opened in Windows Explorer with simple mouse double click.

Supported formats for reading:
1. WSQ FBI's Wavelet Scalar Quantization
2. BMP Windows Bitmap Graphics
3. TIFF Macintosh Tagged Information File Format images
4. TIF PC Tagged Information File Format images
5. JPG, JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group images
6. JP2 JPEG2000 Part 1 images
7. JPC JPEG2000 Code Stream images
8. JPE JPE images
9. PNG Portable Network Graphics images
10. GIF Compuserve Graphic Interchange Format images
11. PSP Paintshop Pro images
12. JFIF JFIF images
13. RLE Run length encoded Windows bitmaps
14. DIB Device independant Windows bitmaps
15. TGA, WIN, VST, VDA, ICB Truevision Targa Graphic images
16. FAX GFI fax images
17. EPS Encapsulated Postscript images
18. PCX, PCC ZSoft Paintbrush images (PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic)
19. SCR Word 5.x screen capture images
20. RPF, RLA Alias/Wavefront images
21. SGI, RGBA, RGB Silicon Graphics International true color images
22. BW SGI black/white images
23. PSD Photoshop images
24. PDD Photoshop images
25. PPM Portable pixel map images
26. PGM Portable gray map images
27. PBM Portable bitmap images
28. CEL Autodesk images / Animator Graphic (FLC and FLI formats)
29. PIC Autodesk images
30. PCD Kodak Photo-CD images
31. CUT Dr. Halo images
32. IFF Amiga Bitmap Graphic (8 bits)
33. ICO Windows icons
34. WMF Windows metafiles
35. EMF Windows enhanced meta files

Supported formats for writing:
1. WSQ FBI's Wavelet Scalar Quantization
2. BMP Windows Bitmap Graphics
3. TIFF Tagged Information File Format (no LZW compression)
4. PNG Portable Network Graphics
5. JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
6. RGB Silicon Graphics International (uncompressed)
7. TGA Truevision Targa Graphic
8. JP2 JPEG2000 Part 1
9. JPC JPEG2000 Code Stream

WSQ file format specifications:
1. Name FBI's Wavelet Scalar Quantization file format.
2. Also known as: FBI Fingerprint Format or FBI WSQ
3. Application The standard file format used by the FBI for storage and interchange of grayscale fingerprint images
4. Originator FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
5. Type Bitmap
6. Colors 8 bit grayscale
7. Compression Wavelet Scalar Quantization
8. Maximum image size 64K x 64K
9. Multiple images per file No

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