.. index:: Evotec/PerkinElmer Opera Flex
.. index:: .flex, .mea, .res
Evotec/PerkinElmer Opera Flex
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Extensions: .flex, .mea, .res
Developer: `Evotec Technologies, now PerkinElmer `_
**Support**
BSD-licensed: |no|
Export: |no|
Officially Supported Versions:
Reader: FlexReader (:bfreader:`Source Code `, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields `)
We currently have:
* many Flex datasets
We would like to have:
* a freely redistributable LuraWave LWF decoder
**Ratings**
Pixels: |Outstanding|
Metadata: |Outstanding|
Openness: |Poor|
Presence: |Poor|
Utility: |Poor|
**Additional Information**
The LuraWave LWF decoder library (i.e. lwf\_jsdk2.6.jar) with
license code is required to decode wavelet-compressed Flex files.
.. seealso::
`LuraTech (developers of the proprietary LuraWave LWF compression used for Flex image planes) `_