Dropbox Lepton compresses JPEGs by 20% or more

Earlier this year, Dropbox open-sourced Lepton, a lossless image compression algorithm which can reduce the size of JPEG images by an average of 22 percent. The technology converts your target JPEGs into the compacted LEP format, and restores the original version on demand. Dropbox is using Lepton right now to save bandwidth and storage space, and if you grab a copy of the Windows build then you can try it, too. The program is a single executable which you’ll need to run from the command line. At a minimum all you have to do is provide a target file name,… [Continue Reading]