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            "text": "# cjpeg (man)\n\n## NAME\n\ncjpeg - compress an image file to a JPEG file\n\n## SYNOPSIS\n\ncjpeg [ options ] [ filename ]\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\ncjpeg  compresses  the  named image file, or the standard input if no file is named, and pro‐\nduces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output.  The currently supported  input  file  formats\nare: PPM (PBMPLUS color format), PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, GIF, and Targa.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **SYNOPSIS**\n- **DESCRIPTION**\n- **OPTIONS** (28 subsections)\n- **EXAMPLES**\n- **HINTS**\n- **ENVIRONMENT**\n- **SEE ALSO**\n- **AUTHOR**\n- **ISSUES**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n"
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                "description": "Scale quantization tables to adjust image quality. Quality is 0 (worst) to 100 (best); default is 75. (See below for more info.)"
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                "description": "Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. Without this, default encoding parameters are used. -optimize usually makes the JPEG file a little smaller, but cjpeg runs somewhat slower and needs much more memory. Image quality and speed of de‐ compression are unaffected by -optimize."
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                "description": "not be automatically recognized by cjpeg; for such files you must specify -targa to make cjpeg treat the input as Targa format. For most Targa files, you won't need this switch. The -quality switch lets you trade off compressed file size against quality of the recon‐ structed image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG file, and the closer the output image will be to the original input. Normally you want to use the lowest quality set‐ ting (smallest file) that decompresses into something visually indistinguishable from the original image. For this purpose the quality setting should generally be between 50 and 95 (the default is 75) for photographic images. If you see defects at -quality 75, then go up 5 or 10 counts at a time until you are happy with the output image. (The optimal setting will vary from one image to another.)"
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                "description": "tion step (but there is still information loss in subsampling, as well as roundoff error.) For most images, specifying a quality value above about 95 will increase the size of the com‐ pressed file dramatically, and while the quality gain from these higher quality values is measurable (using metrics such as PSNR or SSIM), it is rarely perceivable by human vision. In the other direction, quality values below 50 will produce very small files of low image quality. Settings around 5 to 10 might be useful in preparing an index of a large image li‐ brary, for example. Try -quality 2 (or so) for some amusing Cubist effects. (Note: quality values below about 25 generate 2-byte quantization tables, which are considered optional in the JPEG standard. cjpeg emits a warning message when you give such a quality value, because some other JPEG programs may be unable to decode the resulting file. Use -baseline if you need to ensure compatibility at low quality values.) The -quality option has been extended in this version of cjpeg to support separate quality settings for luminance and chrominance (or, in general, separate settings for every quantiza‐ tion table slot.) The principle is the same as chrominance subsampling: since the human eye is more sensitive to spatial changes in brightness than spatial changes in color, the chromi‐ nance components can be quantized more than the luminance components without incurring any visible image quality loss. However, unlike subsampling, this feature reduces data in the frequency domain instead of the spatial domain, which allows for more fine-grained control. This option is useful in quality-sensitive applications, for which the artifacts generated by subsampling may be unacceptable. The -quality option accepts a comma-separated list of parameters, which respectively refer to the quality levels that should be assigned to the quantization table slots. If there are more q-table slots than parameters, then the last parameter is replicated. Thus, if only one quality parameter is given, this is used for both luminance and chrominance (slots 0 and 1, respectively), preserving the legacy behavior of cjpeg v6b and prior. More (or customized) quantization tables can be set with the -qtables option and assigned to components with the"
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                "description": "JPEG files generated with separate luminance and chrominance quality are fully compliant with standard JPEG decoders. CAUTION: For this setting to be useful, be sure to pass an argument of -sample 1x1 to cjpeg to disable chrominance subsampling. Otherwise, the default subsampling level (2x2, AKA \"4:2:0\") will be used. The -progressive switch creates a \"progressive JPEG\" file. In this type of JPEG file, the data is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality. If the file is being transmitted over a slow communications link, the decoder can use the first scan to display a low-quality image very quickly, and can then improve the display with each subsequent scan. The final image is exactly equivalent to a standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the to‐ tal file size is about the same --- often a little smaller. Switches for advanced users:"
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                "description": "Use less accurate integer DCT method [legacy feature]. When the Independent JPEG Group's software was first released in 1991, the compression time for a 1-megapixel JPEG image on a mainstream PC was measured in minutes. Thus, the fast integer DCT al‐ gorithm provided noticeable performance benefits. On modern CPUs running libjpeg- turbo, however, the compression time for a 1-megapixel JPEG image is measured in mil‐ liseconds, and thus the performance benefits of the fast algorithm are much less no‐ ticeable. On modern x86/x86-64 CPUs that support AVX2 instructions, the fast and int methods have similar performance. On other types of CPUs, the fast method is gener‐ ally about 5-15% faster than the int method. For quality levels of 90 and below, there should be little or no perceptible quality difference between the two algorithms. For quality levels above 90, however, the dif‐ ference between the fast and int methods becomes more pronounced. With quality=97, for instance, the fast method incurs generally about a 1-3 dB loss in PSNR relative to the int method, but this can be larger for some images. Do not use the fast method with quality levels above 97. The algorithm often degenerates at quality=98 and above and can actually produce a more lossy image than if lower quality levels had been used. Also, in libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is not fully accelerated for quality levels above 97, so it will be slower than the int method."
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                "description": "Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is in thou‐ sands of bytes, or millions of bytes if \"M\" is attached to the number. For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, an error will occur."
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                "description": "Treat all warnings as fatal. Enabling this option will cause the compressor to abort if an LZW-compressed GIF input image contains incomplete or corrupt image data."
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                "description": "Print version information and exit. The -restart option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to resynchronize after a transmission error. Without restart markers, any damage to a compressed file will usually ruin the image from the point of the error to the end of the image; with restart markers, the damage is usually confined to the portion of the image up to the next restart marker. Of course, the restart markers occupy extra space. We recommend -restart 1 for images that will be transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet. The -smooth option filters the input to eliminate fine-scale noise. This is often useful when converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing factor of 10 to 50 gets rid of dithering patterns in the input file, resulting in a smaller JPEG file and a better-looking image. Too large a smoothing factor will visibly blur the image, however. Switches for wizards:"
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                "description": "Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be generated. This clamps quantiza‐ tion values to 8 bits even at low quality settings. (This switch is poorly named, since it does not ensure that the output is actually baseline JPEG. For example, you can use -baseline and -progressive together.)"
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            "NAME": {
                "content": "cjpeg - compress an image file to a JPEG file\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "SYNOPSIS": {
                "content": "cjpeg [ options ] [ filename ]\n",
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            "DESCRIPTION": {
                "content": "cjpeg  compresses  the  named image file, or the standard input if no file is named, and pro‐\nduces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output.  The currently supported  input  file  formats\nare: PPM (PBMPLUS color format), PGM (PBMPLUS grayscale format), BMP, GIF, and Targa.\n",
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                "content": "All  switch  names  may  be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale may be written -gray or -gr.\nMost of the \"basic\" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter.  Upper and  lower\ncase  are  equivalent  (thus  -BMP is the same as -bmp).  British spellings are also accepted\n(e.g., -greyscale), though for brevity these are not mentioned below.\n\nThe basic switches are:\n",
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                    {
                        "name": "-quality _",
                        "content": "Scale quantization tables to adjust image  quality.   Quality  is  0  (worst)  to  100\n(best); default is 75.  (See below for more info.)\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-grayscale",
                        "content": "Create  monochrome  JPEG  file  from  color input.  By saying -grayscale, you'll get a\nsmaller JPEG file that takes less time to process.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-rgb",
                        "content": "input to the default YCbCr JPEG colorspace.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-optimize",
                        "content": "Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.  Without this,  default  encoding\nparameters  are  used.   -optimize  usually  makes the JPEG file a little smaller, but\ncjpeg runs somewhat slower and needs much more memory.  Image quality and speed of de‐\ncompression are unaffected by -optimize.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-progressive",
                        "content": "Create progressive JPEG file (see below).\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-targa",
                        "content": "not  be  automatically  recognized by cjpeg; for such files you must specify -targa to\nmake cjpeg treat the input as Targa format.  For most Targa files, you won't need this\nswitch.\n\nThe -quality switch lets you trade off compressed file size against  quality  of  the  recon‐\nstructed  image: the higher the quality setting, the larger the JPEG file, and the closer the\noutput image will be to the original input.  Normally you want to use the lowest quality set‐\nting (smallest file) that decompresses into something  visually  indistinguishable  from  the\noriginal  image.   For this purpose the quality setting should generally be between 50 and 95\n(the default is 75) for photographic images.  If you see defects at -quality 75, then go up 5\nor 10 counts at a time until you are happy with the output image.  (The optimal setting  will\nvary from one image to another.)\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-quality",
                        "content": "tion step (but there is still information loss in subsampling, as well  as  roundoff  error.)\nFor most images, specifying a quality value above about 95 will increase the size of the com‐\npressed  file  dramatically,  and  while the quality gain from these higher quality values is\nmeasurable (using metrics such as PSNR or SSIM), it is rarely perceivable by human vision.\n\nIn the other direction, quality values below 50 will produce very small files  of  low  image\nquality.   Settings around 5 to 10 might be useful in preparing an index of a large image li‐\nbrary, for example.  Try -quality 2 (or so) for some amusing Cubist effects.  (Note:  quality\nvalues  below  about 25 generate 2-byte quantization tables, which are considered optional in\nthe JPEG standard.  cjpeg emits a warning message when you give such a quality value, because\nsome other JPEG programs may be unable to decode the resulting file.  Use  -baseline  if  you\nneed to ensure compatibility at low quality values.)\n\nThe  -quality  option  has been extended in this version of cjpeg to support separate quality\nsettings for luminance and chrominance (or, in general, separate settings for every quantiza‐\ntion table slot.)  The principle is the same as chrominance subsampling:  since the human eye\nis more sensitive to spatial changes in brightness than spatial changes in color, the chromi‐\nnance components can be quantized more than the luminance components  without  incurring  any\nvisible  image  quality  loss.  However, unlike subsampling, this feature reduces data in the\nfrequency domain instead of the spatial domain, which allows for more  fine-grained  control.\nThis option is useful in quality-sensitive applications, for which the artifacts generated by\nsubsampling may be unacceptable.\n\nThe -quality option accepts a comma-separated list of parameters, which respectively refer to\nthe  quality  levels  that  should be assigned to the quantization table slots.  If there are\nmore q-table slots than parameters, then the last parameter is replicated.  Thus, if only one\nquality parameter is given, this is used for both luminance and chrominance (slots 0  and  1,\nrespectively),  preserving  the legacy behavior of cjpeg v6b and prior.  More (or customized)\nquantization tables can be set with the -qtables option and assigned to components  with  the"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-qslots",
                        "content": "JPEG files generated with separate luminance and chrominance quality are fully compliant with\nstandard JPEG decoders.\n\nCAUTION:  For  this setting to be useful, be sure to pass an argument of -sample 1x1 to cjpeg\nto disable chrominance subsampling.  Otherwise,  the  default  subsampling  level  (2x2,  AKA\n\"4:2:0\") will be used.\n\nThe  -progressive  switch  creates a \"progressive JPEG\" file.  In this type of JPEG file, the\ndata is stored in multiple scans of increasing quality.  If the  file  is  being  transmitted\nover  a slow communications link, the decoder can use the first scan to display a low-quality\nimage very quickly, and can then improve the display with each subsequent  scan.   The  final\nimage  is exactly equivalent to a standard JPEG file of the same quality setting, and the to‐\ntal file size is about the same --- often a little smaller.\n\nSwitches for advanced users:\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-arithmetic",
                        "content": "Use arithmetic coding.  Caution: arithmetic coded JPEG is not yet widely  implemented,\nso many decoders will be unable to view an arithmetic coded JPEG file at all.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-dct int",
                        "content": "Use accurate integer DCT method (default).\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-dct fast",
                        "content": "Use  less  accurate  integer  DCT  method [legacy feature].  When the Independent JPEG\nGroup's software was first released in 1991, the compression time  for  a  1-megapixel\nJPEG image on a mainstream PC was measured in minutes.  Thus, the fast integer DCT al‐\ngorithm  provided  noticeable  performance  benefits.  On modern CPUs running libjpeg-\nturbo, however, the compression time for a 1-megapixel JPEG image is measured in  mil‐\nliseconds,  and  thus the performance benefits of the fast algorithm are much less no‐\nticeable.  On modern x86/x86-64 CPUs that support AVX2 instructions, the fast and  int\nmethods  have  similar performance.  On other types of CPUs, the fast method is gener‐\nally about 5-15% faster than the int method.\n\nFor quality levels of 90 and below, there should be little or no  perceptible  quality\ndifference between the two algorithms.  For quality levels above 90, however, the dif‐\nference  between  the  fast and int methods becomes more pronounced.  With quality=97,\nfor instance, the fast method incurs generally about a 1-3 dB loss in PSNR relative to\nthe int method, but this can be larger for some images.  Do not use  the  fast  method\nwith quality levels above 97.  The algorithm often degenerates at quality=98 and above\nand  can  actually  produce  a  more lossy image than if lower quality levels had been\nused.  Also, in libjpeg-turbo, the fast method is not fully  accelerated  for  quality\nlevels above 97, so it will be slower than the int method.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-dct float",
                        "content": "Use  floating-point  DCT  method  [legacy feature].  The float method does not produce\nsignificantly more accurate results than the int method, and it is much  slower.   The\nfloat  method  may  also  give  different results on different machines due to varying\nroundoff behavior, whereas the integer methods should give the same results on all ma‐\nchines.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-icc _",
                        "content": "Embed ICC color management profile contained in the specified file.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-restart _",
                        "content": "Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if \"B\" is  attached\nto the number.  -restart 0 (the default) means no restart markers.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-smooth _",
                        "content": "Smooth  the input image to eliminate dithering noise.  N, ranging from 1 to 100, indi‐\ncates the strength of smoothing.  0 (the default) means no smoothing.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-maxmemory _",
                        "content": "Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images.  Value is  in  thou‐\nsands  of  bytes, or millions of bytes if \"M\" is attached to the number.  For example,\n-max 4m selects 4000000 bytes.  If more space is needed, an error will occur.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-outfile _",
                        "content": "Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-memdst",
                        "content": "Compress to memory instead of a file.  This feature was implemented mainly as a way of\ntesting the in-memory destination manager (jpegmemdest()), but it is also useful for\nbenchmarking, since it reduces the I/O overhead.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-report",
                        "content": "Report compression progress.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-strict",
                        "content": "Treat all warnings as fatal.  Enabling this option will cause the compressor to  abort\nif an LZW-compressed GIF input image contains incomplete or corrupt image data.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-verbose",
                        "content": "Enable  debug  printout.   More  -v's  give more output.  Also, version information is\nprinted at startup.\n"
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                        "name": "-debug  -verbose",
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                    {
                        "name": "-version",
                        "content": "Print version information and exit.\n\nThe -restart option inserts extra markers that allow a JPEG decoder to resynchronize after  a\ntransmission  error.   Without  restart markers, any damage to a compressed file will usually\nruin the image from the point of the error to the end of the image; with restart markers, the\ndamage is usually confined to the portion of the image up to the  next  restart  marker.   Of\ncourse, the restart markers occupy extra space.  We recommend -restart 1 for images that will\nbe transmitted across unreliable networks such as Usenet.\n\nThe  -smooth  option  filters  the input to eliminate fine-scale noise.  This is often useful\nwhen converting dithered images to JPEG: a moderate smoothing factor of 10 to 50 gets rid  of\ndithering  patterns  in the input file, resulting in a smaller JPEG file and a better-looking\nimage.  Too large a smoothing factor will visibly blur the image, however.\n\nSwitches for wizards:\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-baseline",
                        "content": "Force baseline-compatible quantization tables to be generated.  This clamps  quantiza‐\ntion  values  to  8  bits even at low quality settings.  (This switch is poorly named,\nsince it does not ensure that the output is actually baseline JPEG.  For example,  you\ncan use -baseline and -progressive together.)\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-qtables _",
                        "content": "Use the quantization tables given in the specified text file.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-qslots _",
                        "content": "Select which quantization table to use for each color component.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-sample _",
                        "content": "Set JPEG sampling factors for each color component.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "-scans _",
                        "content": "Use the scan script given in the specified text file.\n\nThe \"wizard\" switches are intended for experimentation with JPEG.  If you don't know what you\nare doing, don't use them.  These switches are documented further in the file wizard.txt.\n"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "EXAMPLES": {
                "content": "This example compresses the PPM file foo.ppm with a quality factor of 60 and saves the output\nas foo.jpg:\n\ncjpeg -quality 60 foo.ppm > foo.jpg\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "HINTS": {
                "content": "Color  GIF  files  are  not the ideal input for JPEG; JPEG is really intended for compressing\nfull-color (24-bit) images.  In particular, don't try to convert cartoons, line drawings, and\nother images that have only a few distinct colors.  GIF works great on these, JPEG does  not.\nIf you want to convert a GIF to JPEG, you should experiment with cjpeg's -quality and -smooth\noptions to get a satisfactory conversion.  -smooth 10 or so is often helpful.\n\nAvoid  running  an  image  through  a series of JPEG compression/decompression cycles.  Image\nquality loss will accumulate; after ten or so cycles the image may be noticeably  worse  than\nit was after one cycle.  It's best to use a lossless format while manipulating an image, then\nconvert to JPEG format when you are ready to file the image away.\n\nThe  -optimize option to cjpeg is worth using when you are making a \"final\" version for post‐\ning or archiving.  It's also a win when you are using low quality settings to make very small\nJPEG files; the percentage improvement is often a lot more than it is on larger  files.   (At\npresent, -optimize mode is always selected when generating progressive JPEG files.)\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "ENVIRONMENT": {
                "content": "JPEGMEM\nIf this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.  The value\nis  specified  as  described for the -maxmemory switch.  JPEGMEM overrides the default\nvalue specified when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by an explicit\n-maxmemory.\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "SEE ALSO": {
                "content": "djpeg(1), jpegtran(1), rdjpgcom(1), wrjpgcom(1)\nppm(5), pgm(5)\nWallace, Gregory K.  \"The JPEG Still Picture Compression  Standard\",  Communications  of  the\nACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "AUTHOR": {
                "content": "Independent JPEG Group\n\nThis  file  was modified by The libjpeg-turbo Project to include only information relevant to\nlibjpeg-turbo, to wordsmith certain sections, and to describe features not  present  in  lib‐\njpeg.\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "ISSUES": {
                "content": "Not all variants of BMP and Targa file formats are supported.\n\nThe  -targa  switch is not a bug, it's a feature.  (It would be a bug if the Targa format de‐\nsigners had not been clueless.)\n\n30 November 2021                                  CJPEG(1)",
                "subsections": []
            }
        }
    }
}