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  1. .TH JPEGTRAN 1 "28 August 2019"
  2. .SH NAME
  3. jpegtran \- lossless transformation of JPEG files
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B jpegtran
  6. [
  7. .I options
  8. ]
  9. [
  10. .I filename
  11. ]
  12. .LP
  13. .SH DESCRIPTION
  14. .LP
  15. .B jpegtran
  16. performs various useful transformations of JPEG files.
  17. It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another,
  18. for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also
  19. perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image
  20. from landscape to portrait format by rotation.
  21. .PP
  22. For EXIF files and JPEG files containing Exif data, you may prefer to use
  23. .B exiftran
  24. instead.
  25. .PP
  26. .B jpegtran
  27. works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without
  28. ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless:
  29. there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used
  30. .B djpeg
  31. followed by
  32. .B cjpeg
  33. to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same token,
  34. .B jpegtran
  35. cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image quality. However,
  36. while the image data is losslessly transformed, metadata can be removed. See
  37. the
  38. .B \-copy
  39. option for specifics.
  40. .PP
  41. .B jpegtran
  42. reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is
  43. named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output.
  44. .SH OPTIONS
  45. All switch names may be abbreviated; for example,
  46. .B \-optimize
  47. may be written
  48. .B \-opt
  49. or
  50. .BR \-o .
  51. Upper and lower case are equivalent.
  52. British spellings are also accepted (e.g.,
  53. .BR \-optimise ),
  54. though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
  55. .PP
  56. To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file,
  57. .B jpegtran
  58. accepts a subset of the switches recognized by
  59. .BR cjpeg :
  60. .TP
  61. .B \-optimize
  62. Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
  63. .TP
  64. .B \-progressive
  65. Create progressive JPEG file.
  66. .TP
  67. .BI \-restart " N"
  68. Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is
  69. attached to the number.
  70. .TP
  71. .B \-arithmetic
  72. Use arithmetic coding.
  73. .TP
  74. .BI \-scans " file"
  75. Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
  76. .PP
  77. See
  78. .BR cjpeg (1)
  79. for more details about these switches.
  80. If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output
  81. file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file.
  82. .PP
  83. The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches:
  84. .TP
  85. .B \-flip horizontal
  86. Mirror image horizontally (left-right).
  87. .TP
  88. .B \-flip vertical
  89. Mirror image vertically (top-bottom).
  90. .TP
  91. .B \-rotate 90
  92. Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise.
  93. .TP
  94. .B \-rotate 180
  95. Rotate image 180 degrees.
  96. .TP
  97. .B \-rotate 270
  98. Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw).
  99. .TP
  100. .B \-transpose
  101. Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis).
  102. .TP
  103. .B \-transverse
  104. Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis).
  105. .IP
  106. The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions.
  107. The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not
  108. a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only
  109. transform complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way.
  110. .IP
  111. .BR jpegtran 's
  112. default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed
  113. to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the
  114. transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image
  115. area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge
  116. untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical
  117. mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is
  118. able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences
  119. of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge
  120. pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding
  121. transpose-and-flip sequence.
  122. .IP
  123. For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels
  124. rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges
  125. of a transformed image. To do this, add the
  126. .B \-trim
  127. switch:
  128. .TP
  129. .B \-trim
  130. Drop non-transformable edge blocks.
  131. .IP
  132. Obviously, a transformation with
  133. .B \-trim
  134. is not reversible, so strictly speaking
  135. .B jpegtran
  136. with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical
  137. equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example,
  138. .B \-rot 270 -trim
  139. trims only the bottom edge, but
  140. .B \-rot 90 -trim
  141. followed by
  142. .B \-rot 180 -trim
  143. trims both edges.
  144. .IP
  145. If you are only interested in perfect transformation, add the
  146. .B \-perfect
  147. switch:
  148. .TP
  149. .B \-perfect
  150. Fails with an error if the transformation is not perfect.
  151. .IP
  152. For example you may want to do
  153. .IP
  154. .B (jpegtran \-rot 90 -perfect
  155. .I foo.jpg
  156. .B || djpeg
  157. .I foo.jpg
  158. .B | pnmflip \-r90 | cjpeg)
  159. .IP
  160. to do a perfect rotation if available or an approximated one if not.
  161. .PP
  162. We also offer a lossless-crop option, which discards data outside a given
  163. image region but losslessly preserves what is inside. Like the rotate and
  164. flip transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current JPEG format: the
  165. upper left corner of the selected region must fall on an iMCU boundary. If
  166. this does not hold for the given crop parameters, we silently move the upper
  167. left corner up and/or left to make it so, simultaneously increasing the
  168. region dimensions to keep the lower right crop corner unchanged. (Thus, the
  169. output image covers at least the requested region, but may cover more.)
  170. The adjustment of the region dimensions may be optionally disabled by
  171. attaching an 'f' character ("force") to the width or height number.
  172. .PP
  173. The image can be losslessly cropped by giving the switch:
  174. .TP
  175. .B \-crop WxH+X+Y
  176. Crop to a rectangular subarea of width W, height H starting at point X,Y.
  177. .PP
  178. Crop extension: The width or height parameters can be made larger than the
  179. source image. In this case the extra area is filled in with zero (neutral
  180. gray). A larger width parameter has two more options: Attaching an 'f'
  181. character ("flatten") to the width number will fill in the extra area with
  182. the DC of the adjacent block, instead of gray out. Attaching an 'r'
  183. character ("reflect") to the width number will fill in the extra area with
  184. repeated reflections of the source region, instead of gray out.
  185. .PP
  186. A complementary lossless-wipe option is provided to discard (gray out) data
  187. inside a given image region while losslessly preserving what is outside:
  188. .TP
  189. .B \-wipe WxH+X+Y
  190. Wipe (gray out) a rectangular subarea of width W, height H starting at point
  191. X,Y.
  192. .PP
  193. Attaching an 'f' character ("flatten") to the width number will fill the
  194. region with the average of adjacent blocks, instead of gray out. In case
  195. the wipe region and outside area form two horizontally adjacent rectangles,
  196. attaching an 'r' character ("reflect") to the width number will fill the
  197. region with repeated reflections of the outside area, instead of gray out.
  198. .PP
  199. Another option is lossless-drop, which replaces data at a given image
  200. position by another image:
  201. .TP
  202. .B \-drop +X+Y filename
  203. Drop another image
  204. .PP
  205. Both source images must have the same subsampling values. It is best if
  206. they also have the same quantization, otherwise quantization adaption occurs.
  207. The trim option can be used with the drop option to requantize the drop file
  208. to the source file.
  209. .PP
  210. Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are:
  211. .TP
  212. .B \-grayscale
  213. Force grayscale output.
  214. .IP
  215. This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr
  216. (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The
  217. luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing
  218. to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch
  219. is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome picture that was mistakenly
  220. encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid
  221. of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for
  222. a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.)
  223. .TP
  224. .BI \-scale " M/N"
  225. Scale the output image by a factor M/N.
  226. .IP
  227. Currently supported scale factors are M/N with all M from 1 to 16, where N is
  228. the source DCT size, which is 8 for baseline JPEG. If the /N part is omitted,
  229. then M specifies the DCT scaled size to be applied on the given input. For
  230. baseline JPEG this is equivalent to M/8 scaling, since the source DCT size
  231. for baseline JPEG is 8.
  232. .B Caution:
  233. An implementation of the JPEG SmartScale extension is required for this
  234. feature. SmartScale enabled JPEG is not yet widely implemented, so many
  235. decoders will be unable to view a SmartScale extended JPEG file at all.
  236. .PP
  237. .B jpegtran
  238. also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra" markers,
  239. such as comment blocks:
  240. .TP
  241. .B \-copy none
  242. Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting suppresses all
  243. comments and other metadata in the source file.
  244. .TP
  245. .B \-copy comments
  246. Copy only comment markers. This setting copies comments from the source file,
  247. but discards any other metadata.
  248. .TP
  249. .B \-copy all
  250. Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves metadata
  251. found in the source file, such as JFIF thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop
  252. settings. In some files these extra markers can be sizable. Note that this
  253. option will copy thumbnails as-is; they will not be transformed.
  254. .IP
  255. The default behavior is
  256. .BR "\-copy comments" .
  257. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a,
  258. .B jpegtran
  259. always did the equivalent of
  260. .BR "\-copy none" .)
  261. .PP
  262. Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are:
  263. .TP
  264. .BI \-maxmemory " N"
  265. Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is
  266. in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the
  267. number. For example,
  268. .B \-max 4m
  269. selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used.
  270. .TP
  271. .BI \-outfile " name"
  272. Send output image to the named file, not to standard output.
  273. .TP
  274. .B \-verbose
  275. Enable debug printout. More
  276. .BR \-v 's
  277. give more output. Also, version information is printed at startup.
  278. .TP
  279. .B \-debug
  280. Same as
  281. .BR \-verbose .
  282. .SH EXAMPLES
  283. .LP
  284. This example converts a baseline JPEG file to progressive form:
  285. .IP
  286. .B jpegtran \-progressive
  287. .I foo.jpg
  288. .B >
  289. .I fooprog.jpg
  290. .PP
  291. This example rotates an image 90 degrees clockwise, discarding any
  292. unrotatable edge pixels:
  293. .IP
  294. .B jpegtran \-rot 90 -trim
  295. .I foo.jpg
  296. .B >
  297. .I foo90.jpg
  298. .SH ENVIRONMENT
  299. .TP
  300. .B JPEGMEM
  301. If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit.
  302. The value is specified as described for the
  303. .B \-maxmemory
  304. switch.
  305. .B JPEGMEM
  306. overrides the default value specified when the program was compiled, and
  307. itself is overridden by an explicit
  308. .BR \-maxmemory .
  309. .SH SEE ALSO
  310. .BR cjpeg (1),
  311. .BR djpeg (1),
  312. .BR rdjpgcom (1),
  313. .BR wrjpgcom (1)
  314. .br
  315. Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard",
  316. Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44.
  317. .SH AUTHOR
  318. Independent JPEG Group
  319. .SH BUGS
  320. The transform options can't transform odd-size images perfectly. Use
  321. .B \-trim
  322. or
  323. .B \-perfect
  324. if you don't like the results.
  325. .PP
  326. The entire image is read into memory and then written out again, even in
  327. cases where this isn't really necessary. Expect swapping on large images,
  328. especially when using the more complex transform options.