Apache Sanselan is a pure Java image library for reading, writing, and extracting metadata from various image formats such as PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PNM. It was initiated in 2004, has a stable code base, and is used by several projects. Sanselan provides a simple but powerful API and allows working with image data from byte arrays and input streams without being tied to files.

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2. Apache Sanselan
• A pure-Java image library
• Reading and writing of images
• Support for various image formats
• Extracting image meta information
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3. History of Sanselan
• Initiated by Charles M. Chen in 2004
• Open source since 2004
– Apache Licence
• Stable code base
• Used by several projects
• Entered incubator in September
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4. Features of Sanselan
• Portable toolkit (pure Java)
• Correctness over performance
• Not tied to files
– Byte arrays, input streams
• Simple but powerful API
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