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What is the best Free/Open-Source image conversion library in .NET?

System.Drawing has supports for very limited number of image formats

What I am trying to do is, given an image of some format(JPG, TIFF, GIF, or PDF), conver them to other formats.

I am specifically looking for a free or an open-source versions of library for .NET.
Google and Stack Overflow gave me results libraries such as LeadTools (which I abhor and not free) and C/C++ libraries.

I did do my research on Stack Overflow but I could not find an answer from following somewhat duplicated questions below.

  1. Most useful free .NET libraries?
  2. What is the most useful .net library you’ve found?
  3. What is the best image manipulation library?
+3  A: 

What about ImageMagick?

Chris Farmer  2009-04-05 20:29:03
Definitely a good one. +1
0xA3  2009-04-05 20:58:32
I went to check out MagickNet, which is not maintained any more.
Sung Meister  2009-04-05 21:18:12
My God! You have a weird sense of "not maintained anymore"! If by that you mean it hasn't been maintained for 5 days then you are correct, but... http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
Vincent McNabb  2009-04-05 21:44:27
@Vincent: No, by "not maintained", what I meant was for was "MagickNet", which is a .NET interface to ImageMagick. - http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#dot-net
Sung Meister  2009-04-05 21:47:55
+2  A: 

PDF isn't exactly an image format. If you need a free library for handling PDFs specifically you could try http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/

Christopher Edwards  2009-04-05 20:29:35
I was going to use either PDFsharp or iTextSharp for PDF conversion. I guess it'd be better if I remove PDF from the question altogether actually.
Sung Meister  2009-04-05 21:03:36

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