Java ImageIO IIOException: Unsupported image type?

Question

Working with images in Java for the first time and am getting some bizarro exceptions that aren\'t documented very well. Here\'s the line of code that is failing:

Answer 1

Another option is to use .jar prepared by Werner Randelshofer:

http://www.randelshofer.ch/blog/2011/08/reading-cmyk-jpeg-images-with-java-imageio/ or Monte Media Library: http://www.randelshofer.ch/monte/

It looks quite easy and similar to ImageIO usage and available under CC license.