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authorSteve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-27 00:47:24 +0000
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-JBIG-KIT implements a highly effective data compression algorithm for
-bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned
-documents.
+JBIG-KIT implements a highly effective data compression algorithm for
+bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents.
-JBIG-KIT provides a portable library of compression and decompression
-functions with a documented interface that you can very easily include
-into your image or document processing software. In addition, JBIG-KIT
-provides ready-to-use compression and decompression programs with a
-simple command line interface (similar to the converters found in Jef
-Poskanzer's PBM graphics file conversion package).
+This is a portable library of compression and decompression functions
+with a documented interface that can be included into your image or
+document processing software. Also provided are ready-to-use compression
+and decompression programs with a simple command line interface (similar
+to the converters found in Jef Poskanzer's PBM conversion package).
JBIG-KIT implements the specification
- International Standard ISO/IEC 11544:1993 and ITU-T Recommendation
- T.82(1993), "Information technology - Coded representation of picture
- and audio information - progressive bi-level image compression",
+ International Standard ISO/IEC 11544:1993 and ITU-T Recommendation
+ T.82(1993), "Information technology - Coded representation of picture
+ and audio information - progressive bi-level image compression",
<http://www.itu.ch/itudoc/itu-t/rec/t/t82_23822.html>,
-which is commonly referred to as the "JBIG standard". JBIG (Joint
-Bi-level Image experts Group) is the committee which developed this
-international standard for the lossless compression of images using
-arithmetic coding. Like the well-known compression algorithms JPEG and
-MPEG, also JBIG has been developed and published by the International
-Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International
-Telecommunication Union (ITU) (see also <http://www.iso.ch/> and
+which is commonly referred to as the "JBIG standard". JBIG (Joint
+Bi-level Image experts Group) is the committee which developed this
+international standard for the lossless compression of images using
+arithmetic coding. Like the well-known compression algorithms JPEG and
+MPEG, also JBIG has been developed and published by the International
+Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International
+Telecommunication Union (ITU) (see also <http://www.iso.ch/> and
<http://www.itu.ch/>).