The MrSID files are highly compressed raster files thanks to the use of wavelet transforms. MrSID typically uses lossy compression (also called non-conservative, degrading, or lossy) (like the JPEG format) and, therefore, the quality is inferior (perhaps imperceptibly) in relation to the data from which it was generated. As a counterpart, it is the type of compression that most strongly compresses an image; In spite of this non-conservative character, the images usually have a visual appearance very similar to the original ones, unless they have been generated with extremely high compression levels; This is an important difference in relation to the conventional JPEG format, which begins to present visual artifacts at lower compression levels. On the other hand, the MrSID format can also be efficiently compress and even without degrading the values of the original image (lossless, conservative, or lossless compression) although in this case the compression levels are not as high.

This module allows to obtain the information of the internal metadata of the MrSID format, import a MrSID to a JPEG format (of grey or RGB, depending on the MrSID file) or extract between one and three IMG bands of a MrSID.

When MrSID images have been compressed without loss, it may make sense to recover the images as IMG files for analysis, although this implies that the files can occupy much more disk space than the original images.

In the case of importing to JPEG files, the conversion may become impossible if in this format the converted image occupies more than 2 Gbyte.


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