summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/libraries/jbig2dec/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/jbig2dec/README')
-rw-r--r--libraries/jbig2dec/README6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/jbig2dec/README b/libraries/jbig2dec/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..214a0f08f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries/jbig2dec/README
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format.
+
+JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel' (1-bit
+monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular scanned
+paper documents. In this domain it is very efficient, offering compression
+ratios on the order of 100:1.