# The graphics/jbigkit port

## jbigkit-1.6p2 – lossless image compression library

## Description

    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).

    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",
      <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
    <http://www.itu.ch/>).

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  graphics

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff

## Run dependencies