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NAME
djpeg - decompress a JPEG file to an image file
SYNOPSIS
djpeg [ options ] [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
djpeg decompresses the named JPEG file, or the standard input if no file is named, and
produces an image file on the standard output. PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM), BMP, GIF, Targa, or RLE
(Utah Raster Toolkit) output format can be selected. (RLE is supported only if the URT
library is available.)
OPTIONS
All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -grayscale may be written -gray or -gr.
Most of the "basic" switches can be abbreviated to as little as one letter. Upper and
lower case are equivalent (thus -BMP is the same as -bmp). British spellings are also
accepted (e.g., -greyscale), though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
The basic switches are:
-colors N
Reduce image to at most N colors. This reduces the number of colors used in the
output image, so that it can be displayed on a colormapped display or stored in a
colormapped file format. For example, if you have an 8-bit display, you'd need to
reduce to 256 or fewer colors.
-quantize N
Same as -colors. -colors is the recommended name, -quantize is provided only for
backwards compatibility.
-fast Select recommended processing options for fast, low quality output. (The default
options are chosen for highest quality output.) Currently, this is equivalent to
-dct fast -nosmooth -onepass -dither ordered.
-grayscale
Force grayscale output even if JPEG file is color. Useful for viewing on
monochrome displays; also, djpeg runs noticeably faster in this mode.
-rgb Force RGB output even if JPEG file is grayscale. This is provided to support
applications that don't want to cope with grayscale as a separate case.
-scale M/N
Scale the output image by a factor M/N. Currently supported scale factors are M/N
with all M from 1 to 16, where N is the source DCT size, which is 8 for baseline
JPEG. If the /N part is omitted, then M specifies the DCT scaled size to be
applied on the given input. For baseline JPEG this is equivalent to M/8 scaling,
since the source DCT size for baseline JPEG is 8. Scaling is handy if the image is
larger than your screen; also, djpeg runs much faster when scaling down the output.
-bmp Select BMP output format (Windows flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is emitted if
-colors or -grayscale is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale; otherwise,
24-bit full-color format is emitted.
-gif Select GIF output format. Since GIF does not support more than 256 colors, -colors
256 is assumed (unless you specify a smaller number of colors).
-os2 Select BMP output format (OS/2 1.x flavor). 8-bit colormapped format is emitted if
-colors or -grayscale is specified, or if the JPEG file is grayscale; otherwise,
24-bit full-color format is emitted.
-pnm Select PBMPLUS (PPM/PGM) output format (this is the default format). PGM is
emitted if the JPEG file is grayscale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise PPM
is emitted.
-rle Select RLE output format. (Requires URT library.)
-targa Select Targa output format. Grayscale format is emitted if the JPEG file is
grayscale or if -grayscale is specified; otherwise, colormapped format is emitted
if -colors is specified; otherwise, 24-bit full-color format is emitted.
Switches for advanced users:
-dct int
Use integer DCT method (default).
-dct fast
Use fast integer DCT (less accurate).
-dct float
Use floating-point DCT method. The float method is very slightly more accurate
than the int method, but is much slower unless your machine has very fast floating-
point hardware. Also note that results of the floating-point method may vary
slightly across machines, while the integer methods should give the same results
everywhere. The fast integer method is much less accurate than the other two.
-dither fs
Use Floyd-Steinberg dithering in color quantization.
-dither ordered
Use ordered dithering in color quantization.
-dither none
Do not use dithering in color quantization. By default, Floyd-Steinberg dithering
is applied when quantizing colors; this is slow but usually produces the best
results. Ordered dither is a compromise between speed and quality; no dithering is
fast but usually looks awful. Note that these switches have no effect unless color
quantization is being done. Ordered dither is only available in -onepass mode.
-map file
Quantize to the colors used in the specified image file. This is useful for
producing multiple files with identical color maps, or for forcing a predefined set
of colors to be used. The file must be a GIF or PPM file. This option overrides
-colors and -onepass.
-nosmooth
Don't use high-quality upsampling.
-onepass
Use one-pass instead of two-pass color quantization. The one-pass method is faster
and needs less memory, but it produces a lower-quality image. -onepass is ignored
unless you also say -colors N. Also, the one-pass method is always used for
grayscale output (the two-pass method is no improvement then).
-maxmemory N
Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is in
thousands 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, temporary files
will be used.
-outfile name
Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
-verbose
Enable debug printout. More -v's give more output. Also, version information is
printed at startup.
-debug Same as -verbose.
EXAMPLES
This example decompresses the JPEG file foo.jpg, quantizes it to 256 colors, and saves the
output in 8-bit BMP format in foo.bmp:
djpeg -colors 256 -bmp foo.jpg > foo.bmp
HINTS
To get a quick preview of an image, use the -grayscale and/or -scale switches. -grayscale
-scale 1/8 is the fastest case.
Several options are available that trade off image quality to gain speed. -fast turns on
the recommended settings.
-dct fast and/or -nosmooth gain speed at a small sacrifice in quality. When producing a
color-quantized image, -onepass -dither ordered is fast but much lower quality than the
default behavior. -dither none may give acceptable results in two-pass mode, but is
seldom tolerable in one-pass mode.
If you are fortunate enough to have very fast floating point hardware, -dct float may be
even faster than -dct fast. But on most machines -dct float is slower than -dct int; in
this case it is not worth using, because its theoretical accuracy advantage is too small
to be significant in practice.
ENVIRONMENT
JPEGMEM
If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit. The
value is specified as described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides the
default value specified when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by
an explicit -maxmemory.
SEE ALSO
cjpeg(1), jpegtran(1), rdjpgcom(1), wrjpgcom(1)
ppm(5), pgm(5)
Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard", Communications of the
ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
AUTHOR
Independent JPEG Group
BUGS
To avoid the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), djpeg produces uncompressed GIF files.
These are larger than they should be, but are readable by standard GIF decoders.
26 July 2015 DJPEG(1)