JP2 Image Implementation in Universal Viewer

Question

I have some PDF files. All the PDFs contain single page. But, it will have a very large collection. I want to show them as JP2 image in Universal Viewer from my .NET application. The entire process (from conversion of PDFs to JP2 images and showing those JP2 images in Universal Viewer) will have to be done dynamically from my .Net application. Also, the Universal Viewer will have the autocomplete, search and hit-highlight feature, cropping, clipping etc.

Please guide me the implementation process in details.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I do not know free fully managed solutions for PDF to JP2 conversion in .NET.

You can split the task to 2 parts:

1. Convert PDF to PNG / TIFF image There are free C++ libraries that can do that - look at muPDF, xpdf, Ghostscript. There are .NET bindings for some of them.

2. Convert PNG / TIFF to JPEG 2000. There is free CSJ2K library. It looks frozen, though.