.. 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 <http://www.perkinelmer.com/>`_


**Support**


BSD-licensed: |no|

Export: |no|

Officially Supported Versions: 

Reader: FlexReader (:bfreader:`Source Code <FlexReader.java>`, :doc:`Supported Metadata Fields </metadata/FlexReader>`)




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) <https://www.luratech.com/>`_