Windows Imaging Component

Not to be confused with Imaging for Windows.
Not to be confused with OpenEmbedded § Image Creator (Wic).
Windows Imaging Component
Developer(s)Microsoft
Operating systemWindows NT family
TypeApplication programming interface
Licensedocs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/wic/-wic-lh

Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is a COM-based imaging codec framework introduced in Windows Vista (and later available in Windows XP Service Pack 3)[1] for working with and processing digital images and image metadata.

WIC enables application developers to perform image processing operations on any image format through a single set of common APIs, without requiring prior knowledge of specific image formats.

  1. ^ "The XPS Essentials Pack has been updated to support Windows XP Service Pack 3". XPS Team Blog – XML Paper Specification and the Open Packaging Conventions. Microsoft. 29 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2019-05-01.