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Lepton 1.2

Compress JPGs by 20% or more

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(0)
Operating Systems:
Windows 10, Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows 8
License:
Open Source
Developer:
Dropbox
Software Cost:
Free
Category
Audio, Video & Photo
Date Updated:
28 November 2016
Downloads To Date:
957
Languages:
English
Download Size:
754.00 KB

Lepton is an open-sourced Dropbox technology for the lossless compression of JPEGs.

The program can compress JPG files by 20% or more, exporting the results in a LEP format (picture.jpg > picture.lep). Point the program at LEP files later and it restores the original JPG file, byte for byte.

The download is a single executable file which runs from the command line. The simplest option is to pass Lepton the file you'd like to process, and it's converted accordingly (JPGs are compressed to LEPs, LEPs are restored to JPGs).

The program doesn't make much effort to check its input. You might expect to run it like this...

lepton mypic.jpg

...but that gives you an error. You must include the ".exe", like this:

lepton.exe mypic.jpg

If you're including a file path with a space, be sure to surround it with quotes, or the program may crash.

lepton.exe "c:\my pics\mypic.jpg"

If that sounds like too much hassle, we've put together LeptonGUI, a very simple front end which accepts files by drag-and-drop. This doesn't have any other functionality, though, so if you're happy with command line testing then the main lepton.exe is all you need.

Verdict:

Lepton.exe delivered very impressive results for us, shrinking our test files by an average of more than 20%, and in a few cases achieving 50% or more.

We wouldn't like to trust it as our sole archiving tool, just in case a bug means some images aren't processed or restored correctly. It's interesting as a proof of concept, though, and if you've lots of images to archive it's certainly worth a look.

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