Guix

JBIG-KIT implements the JBIG1 data compression standard (ITU-T T.82 and ISO/IEC 11544:1993), designed for bi-level (one bit per pixel) images such as black-and-white scanned documents. It is widely used in fax products, printer firmware and drivers, document management systems, and imaging software.

This package provides a static C library of (de)compression functions and some simple command-line converters similar to those provided by netpbm.

Two JBIG1 variants are available. One (jbig.c) implements nearly all options of the standard but has to keep the full uncompressed image in memory. The other (jbig85.c) implements just the ITU-T T.85 profile, with memory management optimized for embedded and fax applications. It buffers only a few lines of the uncompressed image in memory and is able to stream images of initially unknown height.