Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>> WSQ nowadays is industry standard. Not only because of it's excellent
>>> compression, but it is also ideal for fingerprint images. 
>> Who actually uses it then?
> 
> The vast mayority of companies that create scanning devices include it
> in their SDK for a reason.

Out of curiosity, got any examples? Or examples of apps that use the 
format "a lot"?

I'm not opposed to the WSQ idea, but it is probably best to tackle this 
on more of a generic level - produce a standalone library that can be 
used for wsq encoding/decoding (maybe an adaption of NISTs libwsq), then 
work to integrate that with ImageMagick and similar, and finally add the 
small amount of glue needed in fprint to support WSQ alongside other 
image formats. If this format is as good as you make it sound, let's 
unleash it in a big way on the open source world, who seem to be almost 
entirely unaware of it at the moment :)

Thanks,
Daniel
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