Bug#466427: RFP: jbig-kit -- implements a highly effective data compression algorithm for bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

  Package name    : jbig-kit
  Version         : 1.6
  Upstream Author : Markus Kuhn
  URL             : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/
  License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : implements a highly effective data compression algorithm for bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents

BIG-KIT provides a portable library of compression and decompression
functions with a documented interface that you can include very easily
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
netpbm).

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 

which is commonly referred to as the “JBIG1 standard”. JBIG (Joint
Bi-level Image experts Group) is the committee that developed this
international standard for the lossless compression of images through
arithmetic coding. Like the well-known JPEG and MPEG compression
standards, JBIG has been developed and published through the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU). 

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