In 1989 Dr. Jorgen Vaaben Andersen joined the newly-formed EasyCopy Company.  His great expertise in digital imaging and image compression was instrumental in developing the EasyCopy Software and JPEG Pro - a developer toolkit (SDK) widely used in medical imaging systems (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems - PACS).

Dr. Andersen  was a recognized world expert in image compression prior to joining EasyCopy.In the mid 1980s a group of European telephone companies started a project to find a method to compress images to make use of the telephone network for transporting images over the ISDN protocol (64 kbit/sec).  The project was partly funded by the EU – ESPRIT ‘87.

The algorithm chosen by the project was proposed by the Danish telephone company KTAS (now TDC). Shortly thereafter an ISO standardization group was formed and this algorithm was presented as a possible basis for the new JPEG standard. The name "JPEG" stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard. The group was organized in 1986, issuing a standard in 1992, which was approved in 1994 as ISO 10918-1.

Dr. Andersen who had written a large part of the algorithm proposed by the European group recalls the long meetings and heated discussions among the group members to make sure they made the right decision between algorithms presented by American and Japanese companies in addition to the European one.

Time has proven that the right choices were made by the group since the JPEG format has truly been paving the road for sharing, storing and transmitting images in digital photography and on the Internet. The standard is still almost 20 years later the predominant method for storing and transmitting still image data.

Dr. Andersen has been a major contributor to EasyCopy’s success  in digital imaging, providing high quality solutions for image compression, conversion and plotting.