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| 1 NOTE: This file was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only |
| 2 information relevant to libjpeg-turbo and to wordsmith certain sections. |
| 3 |
| 4 USAGE instructions for the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software |
| 5 ================================================================= |
| 6 |
| 7 This file describes usage of the JPEG conversion programs cjpeg and djpeg, |
| 8 as well as the utility programs jpegtran, rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom. (See |
| 9 the other documentation files if you wish to use the JPEG library within |
| 10 your own programs.) |
| 11 |
| 12 If you are on a Unix machine you may prefer to read the Unix-style manual |
| 13 pages in files cjpeg.1, djpeg.1, jpegtran.1, rdjpgcom.1, wrjpgcom.1. |
| 14 |
| 15 |
| 16 INTRODUCTION |
| 17 |
| 18 These programs implement JPEG image encoding, decoding, and transcoding. |
| 19 JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression method for |
| 20 full-color and grayscale images. |
| 21 |
| 22 |
| 23 GENERAL USAGE |
| 24 |
| 25 We provide two programs, cjpeg to compress an image file into JPEG format, |
| 26 and djpeg to decompress a JPEG file back into a conventional image format. |
| 27 |
| 28 On Unix-like systems, you say: |
| 29 cjpeg [switches] [imagefile] >jpegfile |
| 30 or |
| 31 djpeg [switches] [jpegfile] >imagefile |
| 32 The programs read the specified input file, or standard input if none is |
| 33 named. They always write to standard output (with trace/error messages to |
| 34 standard error). These conventions are handy for piping images between |
| 35 programs. |
| 36 |
| 37 On most non-Unix systems, you say: |
| 38 cjpeg [switches] imagefile jpegfile |
| 39 or |
| 40 djpeg [switches] jpegfile imagefile |
| 41 i.e., both the input and output files are named on the command line. This |
| 42 style is a little more foolproof, and it loses no functionality if you don't |
| 43 have pipes. (You can get this style on Unix too, if you prefer, by defining |
| 44 TWO_FILE_COMMANDLINE when you compile the programs; see install.txt.) |
| 45 |
| 46 You can also say: |
| 47 cjpeg [switches] -outfile jpegfile imagefile |
| 48 or |
| 49 djpeg [switches] -outfile imagefile jpegfile |
| 50 This syntax works on all systems, so it is useful for scripts. |
| 51 |
| 52 The currently supported image file formats are: PPM (PBMPLUS color format), |
| 53 PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, Targa, and RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit |
| 54 format). (RLE is supported only if the URT library is available, which it |
| 55 isn't on most non-Unix systems.) cjpeg recognizes the input image format |
| 56 automatically, with the exception of some Targa files. You have to tell djpeg |
| 57 which format to generate. |
| 58 |
| 59 JPEG files are in the defacto standard JFIF file format. There are other, |
| 60 less widely used JPEG-based file formats, but we don't support them. |
| 61 |
| 62 All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale may be written |
| 63 -gray or -gr. Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as |
| 64 one letter. Upper and lower case are equivalent (-BMP is the same as -bmp). |
| 65 British spellings are also accepted (e.g., -greyscale), though for brevity |
| 66 these are not mentioned below. |
| 67 |
| 68 |
| 69 CJPEG DETAILS |
| 70 |
| 71 The basic command line switches for cjpeg are: |
| 72 |
| 73 -quality N[,...] Scale quantization tables to adjust image quality. |
| 74 Quality is 0 (worst) to 100 (best); default is 75. |
| 75 (See below for more info.) |
| 76 |
| 77 -grayscale Create monochrome JPEG file from color input. |
| 78 Be sure to use this switch when compressing a grayscale |
| 79 BMP file, because cjpeg isn't bright enough to notice |
| 80 whether a BMP file uses only shades of gray. By |
| 81 saying -grayscale, you'll get a smaller JPEG file that |
| 82 takes less time to process. |
| 83 |
| 84 -rgb Create RGB JPEG file. |
| 85 Using this switch suppresses the conversion from RGB |
| 86 colorspace input to the default YCbCr JPEG colorspace. |
| 87 |
| 88 -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. |
| 89 Without this, default encoding parameters are used. |
| 90 -optimize usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller, |
| 91 but cjpeg runs somewhat slower and needs much more |
| 92 memory. Image quality and speed of decompression are |
| 93 unaffected by -optimize. |
| 94 |
| 95 -progressive Create progressive JPEG file (see below). |
| 96 |
| 97 -targa Input file is Targa format. Targa files that contain |
| 98 an "identification" field will not be automatically |
| 99 recognized by cjpeg; for such files you must specify |
| 100 -targa to make cjpeg treat the input as Targa format. |
| 101 For most Targa files, you won't need this switch. |
| 102 |
| 103 The -quality switch lets you trade off compressed file size against quality of |
| 104 the reconstructed image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG |
| 105 file, and the closer the output image will be to the original input. Normally |
| 106 you want to use the lowest quality setting (smallest file) that decompresses |
| 107 into something visually indistinguishable from the original image. For this |
| 108 purpose the quality setting should generally be between 50 and 95 (the default |
| 109 is 75) for photographic images. If you see defects at -quality 75, then go up |
| 110 5 or 10 counts at a time until you are happy with the output image. (The |
| 111 optimal setting will vary from one image to another.) |
| 112 |
| 113 -quality 100 will generate a quantization table of all 1's, minimizing loss |
| 114 in the quantization step (but there is still information loss in subsampling, |
| 115 as well as roundoff error.) For most images, specifying a quality value above |
| 116 about 95 will increase the size of the compressed file dramatically, and while |
| 117 the quality gain from these higher quality values is measurable (using metrics |
| 118 such as PSNR or SSIM), it is rarely perceivable by human vision. |
| 119 |
| 120 In the other direction, quality values below 50 will produce very small files |
| 121 of low image quality. Settings around 5 to 10 might be useful in preparing an |
| 122 index of a large image library, for example. Try -quality 2 (or so) for some |
| 123 amusing Cubist effects. (Note: quality values below about 25 generate 2-byte |
| 124 quantization tables, which are considered optional in the JPEG standard. |
| 125 cjpeg emits a warning message when you give such a quality value, because some |
| 126 other JPEG programs may be unable to decode the resulting file. Use -baseline |
| 127 if you need to ensure compatibility at low quality values.) |
| 128 |
| 129 The -quality option has been extended in this version of cjpeg to support |
| 130 separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance (or, in general, |
| 131 separate settings for every quantization table slot.) The principle is the |
| 132 same as chrominance subsampling: since the human eye is more sensitive to |
| 133 spatial changes in brightness than spatial changes in color, the chrominance |
| 134 components can be quantized more than the luminance components without |
| 135 incurring any visible image quality loss. However, unlike subsampling, this |
| 136 feature reduces data in the frequency domain instead of the spatial domain, |
| 137 which allows for more fine-grained control. This option is useful in |
| 138 quality-sensitive applications, for which the artifacts generated by |
| 139 subsampling may be unacceptable. |
| 140 |
| 141 The -quality option accepts a comma-separated list of parameters, which |
| 142 respectively refer to the quality levels that should be assigned to the |
| 143 quantization table slots. If there are more q-table slots than parameters, |
| 144 then the last parameter is replicated. Thus, if only one quality parameter is |
| 145 given, this is used for both luminance and chrominance (slots 0 and 1, |
| 146 respectively), preserving the legacy behavior of cjpeg v6b and prior. More (or |
| 147 customized) quantization tables can be set with the -qtables option and |
| 148 assigned to components with the -qslots option (see the "wizard" switches |
| 149 below.) |
| 150 |
| 151 JPEG files generated with separate luminance and chrominance quality are |
| 152 fully compliant with standard JPEG decoders. |
| 153 |
| 154 CAUTION: For this setting to be useful, be sure to pass an argument of |
| 155 -sample 1x1 to cjpeg to disable chrominance subsampling. Otherwise, the |
| 156 default subsampling level (2x2, AKA "4:2:0") will be used. |
| 157 |
| 158 The -progressive switch creates a "progressive JPEG" file. In this type of |
| 159 JPEG file, the data is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the |
| 160 file is being transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use |
| 161 the first scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then |
| 162 improve the display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly |
| 163 equivalent to a standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the total |
| 164 file size is about the same --- often a little smaller. |
| 165 |
| 166 Switches for advanced users: |
| 167 |
| 168 -arithmetic Use arithmetic coding. CAUTION: arithmetic coded JPEG |
| 169 is not yet widely implemented, so many decoders will |
| 170 be unable to view an arithmetic coded JPEG file at |
| 171 all. |
| 172 |
| 173 -dct int Use integer DCT method (default). |
| 174 -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate). |
| 175 In libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is generally about |
| 176 5-15% faster than the int method when using the |
| 177 x86/x86-64 SIMD extensions (results may vary with other |
| 178 SIMD implementations, or when using libjpeg-turbo |
| 179 without SIMD extensions.) For quality levels of 90 and |
| 180 below, there should be little or no perceptible |
| 181 difference between the two algorithms. For quality |
| 182 levels above 90, however, the difference between |
| 183 the fast and the int methods becomes more pronounced. |
| 184 With quality=97, for instance, the fast method incurs |
| 185 generally about a 1-3 dB loss (in PSNR) relative to |
| 186 the int method, but this can be larger for some images. |
| 187 Do not use the fast method with quality levels above |
| 188 97. The algorithm often degenerates at quality=98 and |
| 189 above and can actually produce a more lossy image than |
| 190 if lower quality levels had been used. Also, in |
| 191 libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is not fully accerated |
| 192 for quality levels above 97, so it will be slower than |
| 193 the int method. |
| 194 -dct float Use floating-point DCT method. |
| 195 The float method is mainly a legacy feature. It does |
| 196 not produce significantly more accurate results than |
| 197 the int method, and it is much slower. The float |
| 198 method may also give different results on different |
| 199 machines due to varying roundoff behavior, whereas the |
| 200 integer methods should give the same results on all |
| 201 machines. |
| 202 |
| 203 -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every |
| 204 N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number. |
| 205 -restart 0 (the default) means no restart markers. |
| 206 |
| 207 -smooth N Smooth the input image to eliminate dithering noise. |
| 208 N, ranging from 1 to 100, indicates the strength of |
| 209 smoothing. 0 (the default) means no smoothing. |
| 210 |
| 211 -maxmemory N Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing |
| 212 large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or |
| 213 millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number. |
| 214 For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more |
| 215 space is needed, temporary files will be used. |
| 216 |
| 217 -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more printout. |
| 218 or -debug Also, version information is printed at startup. |
| 219 |
| 220 The -restart option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to |
| 221 resynchronize after a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage |
| 222 to a compressed file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error |
| 223 to the end of the image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined |
| 224 to the portion of the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the |
| 225 restart markers occupy extra space. We recommend -restart 1 for images that |
| 226 will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet. |
| 227 |
| 228 The -smooth option filters the input to eliminate fine-scale noise. This is |
| 229 often useful when converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing |
| 230 factor of 10 to 50 gets rid of dithering patterns in the input file, resulting |
| 231 in a smaller JPEG file and a better-looking image. Too large a smoothing |
| 232 factor will visibly blur the image, however. |
| 233 |
| 234 Switches for wizards: |
| 235 |
| 236 -baseline Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be |
| 237 generated. This clamps quantization values to 8 bits |
| 238 even at low quality settings. (This switch is poorly |
| 239 named, since it does not ensure that the output is |
| 240 actually baseline JPEG. For example, you can use |
| 241 -baseline and -progressive together.) |
| 242 |
| 243 -qtables file Use the quantization tables given in the specified |
| 244 text file. |
| 245 |
| 246 -qslots N[,...] Select which quantization table to use for each color |
| 247 component. |
| 248 |
| 249 -sample HxV[,...] Set JPEG sampling factors for each color component. |
| 250 |
| 251 -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file. |
| 252 |
| 253 The "wizard" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG. If you |
| 254 don't know what you are doing, DON'T USE THEM. These switches are documented |
| 255 further in the file wizard.txt. |
| 256 |
| 257 |
| 258 DJPEG DETAILS |
| 259 |
| 260 The basic command line switches for djpeg are: |
| 261 |
| 262 -colors N Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the |
| 263 or -quantize N number of colors used in the output image, so that it |
| 264 can be displayed on a colormapped display or stored in |
| 265 a colormapped file format. For example, if you have |
| 266 an 8-bit display, you'd need to reduce to 256 or fewer |
| 267 colors. (-colors is the recommended name, -quantize |
| 268 is provided only for backwards compatibility.) |
| 269 |
| 270 -fast Select recommended processing options for fast, low |
| 271 quality output. (The default options are chosen for |
| 272 highest quality output.) Currently, this is equivalent |
| 273 to "-dct fast -nosmooth -onepass -dither ordered". |
| 274 |
| 275 -grayscale Force grayscale output even if JPEG file is color. |
| 276 Useful for viewing on monochrome displays; also, |
| 277 djpeg runs noticeably faster in this mode. |
| 278 |
| 279 -rgb Force RGB output even if JPEG file is grayscale. |
| 280 |
| 281 -scale M/N Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently |
| 282 the scale factor must be M/8, where M is an integer |
| 283 between 1 and 16 inclusive, or any reduced fraction |
| 284 thereof (such as 1/2, 3/4, etc. Scaling is handy if |
| 285 the image is larger than your screen; also, djpeg runs |
| 286 much faster when scaling down the output. |
| 287 |
| 288 -bmp Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit |
| 289 colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale |
| 290 is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale; |
| 291 otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted. |
| 292 |
| 293 -gif Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support |
| 294 more than 256 colors, -colors 256 is assumed (unless |
| 295 you specify a smaller number of colors). If you |
| 296 specify -fast, the default number of colors is 216. |
| 297 |
| 298 -os2 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit |
| 299 colormapped format is emitted if -colors or -grayscale |
| 300 is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale; |
| 301 otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted. |
| 302 |
| 303 -pnm Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the |
| 304 default format). PGM is emitted if the JPEG file is |
| 305 grayscale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise |
| 306 PPM is emitted. |
| 307 |
| 308 -rle Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.) |
| 309 |
| 310 -targa Select Targa output format. Grayscale format is |
| 311 emitted if the JPEG file is grayscale or if |
| 312 -grayscale is specified; otherwise, colormapped format |
| 313 is emitted if -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit |
| 314 full-color format is emitted. |
| 315 |
| 316 Switches for advanced users: |
| 317 |
| 318 -dct int Use integer DCT method (default). |
| 319 -dct fast Use fast integer DCT (less accurate). |
| 320 In libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is generally about |
| 321 5-15% faster than the int method when using the |
| 322 x86/x86-64 SIMD extensions (results may vary with other |
| 323 SIMD implementations, or when using libjpeg-turbo |
| 324 without SIMD extensions.) If the JPEG image was |
| 325 compressed using a quality level of 85 or below, then |
| 326 there should be little or no perceptible difference |
| 327 between the two algorithms. When decompressing images |
| 328 that were compressed using quality levels above 85, |
| 329 however, the difference between the fast and int |
| 330 methods becomes more pronounced. With images |
| 331 compressed using quality=97, for instance, the fast |
| 332 method incurs generally about a 4-6 dB loss (in PSNR) |
| 333 relative to the int method, but this can be larger for |
| 334 some images. If you can avoid it, do not use the fast |
| 335 method when decompressing images that were compressed |
| 336 using quality levels above 97. The algorithm often |
| 337 degenerates for such images and can actually produce |
| 338 a more lossy output image than if the JPEG image had |
| 339 been compressed using lower quality levels. |
| 340 -dct float Use floating-point DCT method. |
| 341 The float method is mainly a legacy feature. It does |
| 342 Â not produce significantly more accurate results than |
| 343 the int method, and it is much slower. The float |
| 344 method may also give different results on different |
| 345 machines due to varying roundoff behavior, whereas the |
| 346 integer methods should give the same results on all |
| 347 machines. |
| 348 |
| 349 -dither fs Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization. |
| 350 -dither ordered Use ordered dithering in color quantization. |
| 351 -dither none Do not use dithering in color quantization. |
| 352 By default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied when |
| 353 quantizing colors; this is slow but usually produces |
| 354 the best results. Ordered dither is a compromise |
| 355 between speed and quality; no dithering is fast but |
| 356 usually looks awful. Note that these switches have |
| 357 no effect unless color quantization is being done. |
| 358 Ordered dither is only available in -onepass mode. |
| 359 |
| 360 -map FILE Quantize to the colors used in the specified image |
| 361 file. This is useful for producing multiple files |
| 362 with identical color maps, or for forcing a predefined |
| 363 set of colors to be used. The FILE must be a GIF |
| 364 or PPM file. This option overrides -colors and |
| 365 -onepass. |
| 366 |
| 367 -nosmooth Use a faster, lower-quality upsampling routine. |
| 368 |
| 369 -onepass Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization. |
| 370 The one-pass method is faster and needs less memory, |
| 371 but it produces a lower-quality image. -onepass is |
| 372 ignored unless you also say -colors N. Also, |
| 373 the one-pass method is always used for grayscale |
| 374 output (the two-pass method is no improvement then). |
| 375 |
| 376 -maxmemory N Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing |
| 377 large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or |
| 378 millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number. |
| 379 For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more |
| 380 space is needed, temporary files will be used. |
| 381 |
| 382 -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more printout. |
| 383 or -debug Also, version information is printed at startup. |
| 384 |
| 385 |
| 386 HINTS FOR CJPEG |
| 387 |
| 388 Color GIF files are not the ideal input for JPEG; JPEG is really intended for |
| 389 compressing full-color (24-bit) images. In particular, don't try to convert |
| 390 cartoons, line drawings, and other images that have only a few distinct |
| 391 colors. GIF works great on these, JPEG does not. If you want to convert a |
| 392 GIF to JPEG, you should experiment with cjpeg's -quality and -smooth options |
| 393 to get a satisfactory conversion. -smooth 10 or so is often helpful. |
| 394 |
| 395 Avoid running an image through a series of JPEG compression/decompression |
| 396 cycles. Image quality loss will accumulate; after ten or so cycles the image |
| 397 may be noticeably worse than it was after one cycle. It's best to use a |
| 398 lossless format while manipulating an image, then convert to JPEG format when |
| 399 you are ready to file the image away. |
| 400 |
| 401 The -optimize option to cjpeg is worth using when you are making a "final" |
| 402 version for posting or archiving. It's also a win when you are using low |
| 403 quality settings to make very small JPEG files; the percentage improvement |
| 404 is often a lot more than it is on larger files. (At present, -optimize |
| 405 mode is always selected when generating progressive JPEG files.) |
| 406 |
| 407 Support for GIF input files was removed in cjpeg v6b due to concerns over |
| 408 the Unisys LZW patent. Although this patent expired in 2006, cjpeg still |
| 409 lacks GIF support, for these historical reasons. (Conversion of GIF files to |
| 410 JPEG is usually a bad idea anyway.) |
| 411 |
| 412 |
| 413 HINTS FOR DJPEG |
| 414 |
| 415 To get a quick preview of an image, use the -grayscale and/or -scale switches. |
| 416 "-grayscale -scale 1/8" is the fastest case. |
| 417 |
| 418 Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed. |
| 419 "-fast" turns on the recommended settings. |
| 420 |
| 421 "-dct fast" and/or "-nosmooth" gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality. |
| 422 When producing a color-quantized image, "-onepass -dither ordered" is fast but |
| 423 much lower quality than the default behavior. "-dither none" may give |
| 424 acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is seldom tolerable in one-pass mode. |
| 425 |
| 426 Two-pass color quantization requires a good deal of memory; on MS-DOS machines |
| 427 it may run out of memory even with -maxmemory 0. In that case you can still |
| 428 decompress, with some loss of image quality, by specifying -onepass for |
| 429 one-pass quantization. |
| 430 |
| 431 To avoid the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), djpeg produces uncompressed GIF |
| 432 files. These are larger than they should be, but are readable by standard GIF |
| 433 decoders. |
| 434 |
| 435 |
| 436 HINTS FOR BOTH PROGRAMS |
| 437 |
| 438 If more space is needed than will fit in the available main memory (as |
| 439 determined by -maxmemory), temporary files will be used. (MS-DOS versions |
| 440 will try to get extended or expanded memory first.) The temporary files are |
| 441 often rather large: in typical cases they occupy three bytes per pixel, for |
| 442 example 3*800*600 = 1.44Mb for an 800x600 image. If you don't have enough |
| 443 free disk space, leave out -progressive and -optimize (for cjpeg) or specify |
| 444 -onepass (for djpeg). |
| 445 |
| 446 On MS-DOS, the temporary files are created in the directory named by the TMP |
| 447 or TEMP environment variable, or in the current directory if neither of those |
| 448 exist. Amiga implementations put the temp files in the directory named by |
| 449 JPEGTMP:, so be sure to assign JPEGTMP: to a disk partition with adequate free |
| 450 space. |
| 451 |
| 452 The default memory usage limit (-maxmemory) is set when the software is |
| 453 compiled. If you get an "insufficient memory" error, try specifying a smaller |
| 454 -maxmemory value, even -maxmemory 0 to use the absolute minimum space. You |
| 455 may want to recompile with a smaller default value if this happens often. |
| 456 |
| 457 On machines that have "environment" variables, you can define the environment |
| 458 variable JPEGMEM to set the default memory limit. The value is specified as |
| 459 described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides the default value |
| 460 specified when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by an |
| 461 explicit -maxmemory switch. |
| 462 |
| 463 On MS-DOS machines, -maxmemory is the amount of main (conventional) memory to |
| 464 use. (Extended or expanded memory is also used if available.) Most |
| 465 DOS-specific versions of this software do their own memory space estimation |
| 466 and do not need you to specify -maxmemory. |
| 467 |
| 468 |
| 469 JPEGTRAN |
| 470 |
| 471 jpegtran performs various useful transformations of JPEG files. |
| 472 It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another, |
| 473 for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also |
| 474 perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image |
| 475 from landscape to portrait format by rotation. For EXIF files and JPEG files |
| 476 containing Exif data, you may prefer to use exiftran instead. |
| 477 |
| 478 jpegtran works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without |
| 479 ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless: |
| 480 there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used |
| 481 djpeg followed by cjpeg to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same |
| 482 token, jpegtran cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image |
| 483 quality. However, while the image data is losslessly transformed, metadata |
| 484 can be removed. See the -copy option for specifics. |
| 485 |
| 486 jpegtran uses a command line syntax similar to cjpeg or djpeg. |
| 487 On Unix-like systems, you say: |
| 488 jpegtran [switches] [inputfile] >outputfile |
| 489 On most non-Unix systems, you say: |
| 490 jpegtran [switches] inputfile outputfile |
| 491 where both the input and output files are JPEG files. |
| 492 |
| 493 To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file, |
| 494 jpegtran accepts a subset of the switches recognized by cjpeg: |
| 495 -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. |
| 496 -progressive Create progressive JPEG file. |
| 497 -arithmetic Use arithmetic coding. |
| 498 -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every |
| 499 N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number. |
| 500 -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file. |
| 501 See the previous discussion of cjpeg for more details about these switches. |
| 502 If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output |
| 503 file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file. |
| 504 |
| 505 The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches: |
| 506 -flip horizontal Mirror image horizontally (left-right). |
| 507 -flip vertical Mirror image vertically (top-bottom). |
| 508 -rotate 90 Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise. |
| 509 -rotate 180 Rotate image 180 degrees. |
| 510 -rotate 270 Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw). |
| 511 -transpose Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis). |
| 512 -transverse Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis). |
| 513 |
| 514 The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions. |
| 515 The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not |
| 516 a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only |
| 517 transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way. |
| 518 |
| 519 jpegtran's default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed |
| 520 to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the |
| 521 transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image |
| 522 area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge |
| 523 untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical |
| 524 mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is |
| 525 able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences |
| 526 of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge |
| 527 pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding |
| 528 transpose-and-flip sequence. |
| 529 |
| 530 For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels |
| 531 rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges |
| 532 of a transformed image. To do this, add the -trim switch: |
| 533 -trim Drop non-transformable edge blocks. |
| 534 Obviously, a transformation with -trim is not reversible, so strictly speaking |
| 535 jpegtran with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical |
| 536 equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example, |
| 537 "-rot 270 -trim" trims only the bottom edge, but "-rot 90 -trim" followed by |
| 538 "-rot 180 -trim" trims both edges. |
| 539 |
| 540 If you are only interested in perfect transformations, add the -perfect switch: |
| 541 -perfect Fail with an error if the transformation is not |
| 542 perfect. |
| 543 For example, you may want to do |
| 544 jpegtran -rot 90 -perfect foo.jpg || djpeg foo.jpg | pnmflip -r90 | cjpeg |
| 545 to do a perfect rotation, if available, or an approximated one if not. |
| 546 |
| 547 This version of jpegtran also offers a lossless crop option, which discards |
| 548 data outside of a given image region but losslessly preserves what is inside. |
| 549 Like the rotate and flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current |
| 550 JPEG format; the upper left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU |
| 551 boundary. If it doesn't, then it is silently moved up and/or left to the |
| 552 nearest iMCU boundary (the lower right corner is unchanged.) Thus, the output |
| 553 image covers at least the requested region, but it may cover more. The |
| 554 adjustment of the region dimensions may be optionally disabled by attaching an |
| 555 'f' character ("force") to the width or height number. |
| 556 |
| 557 The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch: |
| 558 -crop WxH+X+Y Crop to a rectangular region of width W and height H, |
| 559 starting at point X,Y. |
| 560 |
| 561 Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are: |
| 562 |
| 563 -grayscale Force grayscale output. |
| 564 This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr |
| 565 (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The |
| 566 luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing |
| 567 to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch |
| 568 is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome picture that was mistakenly |
| 569 encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid |
| 570 of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for |
| 571 a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.) |
| 572 |
| 573 jpegtran also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra" |
| 574 markers, such as comment blocks: |
| 575 -copy none Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting |
| 576 suppresses all comments and other metadata in the |
| 577 source file. |
| 578 -copy comments Copy only comment markers. This setting copies |
| 579 comments from the source file but discards any other |
| 580 metadata. |
| 581 -copy all Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves |
| 582 miscellaneous markers found in the source file, such |
| 583 as JFIF thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop settings. |
| 584 In some files, these extra markers can be sizable. |
| 585 Note that this option will copy thumbnails as-is; |
| 586 they will not be transformed. |
| 587 The default behavior is -copy comments. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a, |
| 588 jpegtran always did the equivalent of -copy none.) |
| 589 |
| 590 Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are: |
| 591 -outfile filename |
| 592 -maxmemory N |
| 593 -verbose |
| 594 -debug |
| 595 These work the same as in cjpeg or djpeg. |
| 596 |
| 597 |
| 598 THE COMMENT UTILITIES |
| 599 |
| 600 The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks to occur within a JPEG file. |
| 601 Although the standard doesn't actually define what COM blocks are for, they |
| 602 are widely used to hold user-supplied text strings. This lets you add |
| 603 annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG files, and later retrieve |
| 604 them as text. COM blocks do not interfere with the image stored in the JPEG |
| 605 file. The maximum size of a COM block is 64K, but you can have as many of |
| 606 them as you like in one JPEG file. |
| 607 |
| 608 We provide two utility programs to display COM block contents and add COM |
| 609 blocks to a JPEG file. |
| 610 |
| 611 rdjpgcom searches a JPEG file and prints the contents of any COM blocks on |
| 612 standard output. The command line syntax is |
| 613 rdjpgcom [-raw] [-verbose] [inputfilename] |
| 614 The switch "-raw" (or just "-r") causes rdjpgcom to output non-printable |
| 615 characters in JPEG comments. These characters are normally escaped for |
| 616 security reasons. |
| 617 The switch "-verbose" (or just "-v") causes rdjpgcom to also display the JPEG |
| 618 image dimensions. If you omit the input file name from the command line, |
| 619 the JPEG file is read from standard input. (This may not work on some |
| 620 operating systems, if binary data can't be read from stdin.) |
| 621 |
| 622 wrjpgcom adds a COM block, containing text you provide, to a JPEG file. |
| 623 Ordinarily, the COM block is added after any existing COM blocks, but you |
| 624 can delete the old COM blocks if you wish. wrjpgcom produces a new JPEG |
| 625 file; it does not modify the input file. DO NOT try to overwrite the input |
| 626 file by directing wrjpgcom's output back into it; on most systems this will |
| 627 just destroy your file. |
| 628 |
| 629 The command line syntax for wrjpgcom is similar to cjpeg's. On Unix-like |
| 630 systems, it is |
| 631 wrjpgcom [switches] [inputfilename] |
| 632 The output file is written to standard output. The input file comes from |
| 633 the named file, or from standard input if no input file is named. |
| 634 |
| 635 On most non-Unix systems, the syntax is |
| 636 wrjpgcom [switches] inputfilename outputfilename |
| 637 where both input and output file names must be given explicitly. |
| 638 |
| 639 wrjpgcom understands three switches: |
| 640 -replace Delete any existing COM blocks from the file. |
| 641 -comment "Comment text" Supply new COM text on command line. |
| 642 -cfile name Read text for new COM block from named file. |
| 643 (Switch names can be abbreviated.) If you have only one line of comment text |
| 644 to add, you can provide it on the command line with -comment. The comment |
| 645 text must be surrounded with quotes so that it is treated as a single |
| 646 argument. Longer comments can be read from a text file. |
| 647 |
| 648 If you give neither -comment nor -cfile, then wrjpgcom will read the comment |
| 649 text from standard input. (In this case an input image file name MUST be |
| 650 supplied, so that the source JPEG file comes from somewhere else.) You can |
| 651 enter multiple lines, up to 64KB worth. Type an end-of-file indicator |
| 652 (usually control-D or control-Z) to terminate the comment text entry. |
| 653 |
| 654 wrjpgcom will not add a COM block if the provided comment string is empty. |
| 655 Therefore -replace -comment "" can be used to delete all COM blocks from a |
| 656 file. |
| 657 |
| 658 These utility programs do not depend on the IJG JPEG library. In |
| 659 particular, the source code for rdjpgcom is intended as an illustration of |
| 660 the minimum amount of code required to parse a JPEG file header correctly. |
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