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## How to Read this Manual

This User Manual gives a high-level view of the design, features and classes that make up the MrSID SDK.

The chapter Architecture and Design describes the overall architecture of the image pipeline and strip-based decoding mechanism that this SDK implements.

Further chapters briefly motivate and describe the various classes that make up the SDK.

Note that the descriptions provided are designed only to introduce the classes; for detailed information on specific features, methods, etc, please refer to the Reference Manual.

Included in this manual is a chapter describing the command line applications that are included with the SDK, as well as a glossary and an appendix of "technical notes” explaining minutiae about which you might be curious.