Provided by: jpegoptim_1.4.7-1_amd64 
NAME
jpegoptim - utility to optimize/compress JPEG/JFIF files.
SYNOPSIS
jpegoptim [ options ] [ filenames ]
DESCRIPTION
jpegoptim is used to optimize/compress jpeg files. Program supports lossless optimization, which is based
on optimizing the Huffman tables. And so called "lossy" optimization where in addition to optimizing
Huffman tables user can specify upperlimit for image quality.
NOTE! By default jpegoptim modifies the input files (if they are optimized), to preserve original files
use option -d to specify alternate directory for saving the optimized files to.
Only normal files are optimized (symbolic links and special files are skipped). Also, any other hard
links to the file being optimized (as created using link(2)) are unaffected.
OPTIONS
Options may be either the traditional POSIX one letter options, or the GNU style long options. POSIX
style options start with a single ``-'', while GNU long options start with ``--''.
Options offered by jpegoptim are the following:
-d<path>, --dest=<path>
Sets alternative destination directory where to save optimized files (default is to overwrite the
originals). Please note that unchanged files won't be added to the destination directory. This
means if the source file can't be compressed, no file will be created in the destination path.
-f, --force
Force optimization, even if the result would be larger than the original file.
-h, --help
Displays short usage information and exits.
-m<quality>, --max=<quality>
Sets the maximum image quality factor (disables lossless optimization mode, which is by default
enabled). This option will reduce quality of those source files that were saved using higher
quality setting. While files that already have lower quality setting will be compressed using the
lossless optimization method.
Valid values for quality parameter are: 0 - 100
-n, --noaction
Don't really optimize files, just print results.
-S<size>, --size=<size>
Try to optimize file to given size (disables lossless optimization mode). Target size is specified
either in kilobytes (1 - n) or as percentage (1% - 99%) of the original file size.
-T<threshold>, --threshold=<threshold>
Keep the file unchanged if the compression gain is lower than the threshold (%).
Valid values for threshold are: 0 - 100
-b, --csv
Print progress info in CSV format.
-o, --overwrite
Overwrite target file even if it exists (when using -d option).
-p, --preserve
Preserve file modification times.
-P, --preserve-perms
Preserve file permissions (owner/group) by overwriting the original file. This is slightly less
safe than the default mode of operation (where new file is first saved as temporary file and then
renamed over the original file). In this mode a backup of the original file is made with
.jpegoptim.bak extension, and this file is removed after the original file has been successfully
replaced. NOTE! if running jpegoptim as root there is generally no need to use this option, as
jpegoptim is able to preserve file permissions when run by root in default mode.
-q, --quiet
Quiet mode.
-t, --totals
Print totals after processing all files.
-v, --verbose
Enables verbose mode (positively chatty).
--all-normal
Force all output files to be non-progressive. Can be used to convert all input files to non-
progressive JPEGs when used with --force option.
--all-progressive
Force all output files to be progressive. Can be used to convert all normal (non-progressive) JPEGs
input files to progressive when used with --force option.
--all-arith
Force all output files to use Arithmetic Coding. This option is experimental and only available if
jpegoptim was compiled with Arithmetic Coding support enabled.
--all-huffman
Force all output files to use (traditional) Huffman coding. This option is experimental and only
available if jpegoptim was compiled with Arithmetic Coding support enabled.
--nofix
Skip processing of any input files that have any errors/warnings during decompression. By default
jpegoptim will attempt to optimize any file that it is able to decompress, even if decompression
generates warnings. This will 'fix' some (corrupt) JPEG images automatically. If this behaviour is
not desired, this option can be used to make jpegoptim to skip any input files that contain any
errors.
--stdout
Send output image to standard output. Note, if optimization didn't create smaller file than the
input file, then no output original image is passed through unmodified (except any extra data after
JPEG image will be discarded).
--stdin
Read input image from standard input and send output to standard output (--stdout is assumend when
this option is used). When this option is used then only one image is read from standard input.
Any (other) input files specified on command-line are ignored. Note, if input file '-' is seen on
command line then standard input is also assumed.
METADATA OPTIONS
By default jpetoptim will keep common metadata (JPEG markers) and discard any other (unkown ones).
Following markers are kept by default:
- EXIF
- IPTC
- ICC
- XMP
- COM (JPEG Comment markers)
JFIF marker will be regenerated (by libjpeg) during the process (this cannot be changed). However, Adobe
marker is also generated (or omitted) by libjpeg based on the image colorspace, etc. This behavior
depends on libjpeg library version being used. To make sure Adobe marker is preserved option --keep-adobe
can be used.
To remove additonal markers one or more the --strip-* options can be used.
For example: --strip-icc --strip-xmp --strip-com
Alternatively it is possible to specify --strip-all and then one or more of the --keep-* options to
explicitly list which markers to keep
For example: --strip-all --keep-exif --keep-iptc
Options for controlling metadata (markers) in output files:
-s, --strip-all
Strip all markers from output file. (NOTE! by default only Comment & Exif/IPTC/PhotoShop/ICC/XMP
markers are kept, everything else is discarded). Output JPEG still likely will contains one or two
markers (JFIF and Adobe APP14) depending on colorspace used in the image, as these markers are
generated by the libjpeg encoder automatically.
--strip-none
Preserve "all" markers in the image. This will leave all markers untouched in the image, except
JFIF (APP0) and Adobe (APP14) markers as those get regenerated by the libjpeg library.
NOTE! If this option is specified then any other --strip-* or --keep-* options are ignored.
--strip-com
Strip Comment (COM) markers from output file.
--strip-exif
Strip EXIF markers from output file.
--strip-iptc
Strip IPTC / Adobe Photoshop (APP13) markers from output file.
--strip-icc
Strip ICC profiles from output file.
--strip-xmp
Strip XMP profiles from output file.
--strip-jfxx
Strip JFXX (JFIF Extensions) from output file.
--strip-Adobe
Strip Adobe markers from output file.
--keep-com
Do not strip any Comment (COM) markers from output file.
--keep-exif
Do not strip any EXIF markers from output file.
--keep-iptc
Do not strip any IPTC / Adobe Photoshop (APP13) markers from output file.
--keep-icc
Do not strip any ICC profiles from output file.
--keep-xmp
Do not strip any XMP profiles from output file.
--strip-jfxx
Do not strip any JFXX (JFIF Extensions) from output file.
--keep-Adobe
Do not strip Adobe markers from output file.
BUGS
When using --size option, resulting file is not always exactly the requested size. Workaround is to re-
run jpegoptim on the same file again which often will result file closer to target size.
SEE ALSO
jpeginfo(1)
AUTHOR
Timo Kokkonen <tjko@iki.fi>
COPYING
Copyright (C) 1996-2022 Timo Kokkonen
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
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(at your option) any later version.
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