Releases of FAPEC, WinFAPEC and FARSHY

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We have released the new versions of our main software products: Our professional data compression software, FAPEC Archiver 25.0; its graphical front-end for Windows, WinFAPEC 1.3; and our professional image and maritime soundings viewer, FARSHY 1.1.

 

The software can be downloaded from our website, at this link for FAPEC and WinFAPEC, and this link for FARSHY.

FAPEC, without any cost, it will provide you free decompression features (with some minor limitations) of .fapec files, both in command-line (including Linux and macOS) and with an easy user interface for Windows platforms.


FARSHY can be tested on a few images for free. You can also request free 30-day evaluation licenses.

With FARSHY you can view and perform some basic analyses on raw image files (from monochrome to hyperspectral ones) and on Kongsberg’s KMALL watercolumn files. It allows rapid browsing of the several bands or swaths.

 

To compress files with FAPEC (either through the command-line, with WinFAPEC or with the fapyc Python package), you will need a valid license. You can get free 30-days evaluation licenses from our website. For full licenses, integration in your systems and support, please contact us.

As usual, FAPEC Archiver and WinFAPEC includes our professional technology:

  • High-performance, multi-threaded, versatile two-stage data compression.
  • Automatic algorithm selection from a quick analysis of each file to be compressed.
  • Professional stages: Kongsberg’s MBES data, CILLIC image and video compression, tabular (CSV) data, FastQ genomics compression, Audio and RF compression…
  • Kongsberg’s KMALL and KMWCD files compression with the option to compress in “instrumentally lossless” mode, removing the noise bits from the data, significantly increasing the ratios while not affecting the quality data.
  • Ultra-fast compression option for speeds in the GB/s regime.
  • Lossy compression options for most of the stages, configurable by the user (lossless is set by default).
  • Basic data analytics on-the-fly, allowing to obtain some statistics from each file. It includes, for example, a “flatness map” of images (with CILLIC), or the compressibility of Kongsberg MBES watercolumn datagrams – which allow detecting features in the watercolumn.
  • On-the-fly encryption. Error recovery from corrupted files.
  • API for third-party integration in C/C++, Python, Java, HDF5, FITS…

Have fun!