IrfanView is a fast, simple freeware image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more. In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen.
The IrfanView PlugIns package offers additional file formats and effects for IrfanView.
- New capture option: Region capture (Thanks to grebulon)
- OCR Feature/PlugIn added (Options menu, Hotkey: F9, full image or selection)
- New command line switches for /capture
- New and re-arranged Properties dialogs
- New Color Management options in Properties->Viewing (new LCMS PlugIn needed)
- Burning PlugIn: can burn using Nero or Windows interface (WinXP or later)
Reviewing 4.25 (Jun 18, 2009)
Love this program. Been using it for, God, more than a decade now! Wow!
Only complaint I have is that it seems very slow to start up under Windows 7. You double-click an image and it take a few seconds to load up while it was instantaneous under Vista and XP on the same hardware with the same image files.
Can't really complain about that since Win7's not even out yet, but I thought it'd be worth a mention.
Update: this build seems to have fixed that problem! Excellent.
Reviewing 4.25 (Jun 17, 2009)
as always 5 big stars.
Irfan Skiljan is a champion, another 5 big stars for him
Reviewing 4.25 (Jun 17, 2009)
One of the best apps ever. Works perfectly as ever. The fact that it's freeware as well is a (large) bonus.
Reviewing 4.25 (Jun 17, 2009)
Nearly 3,000,000 downloads and only 555 ratings! Step up here people. This is possibly the best freeware app, period. Works as advertised, fast, light and ever advancing in capability. No bloat, all meat, no filler. The hot dog of software.