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JPEGTRAN(1) JPEGTRAN(1)
NAME
jpegtran - lossless transformation of JPEG files
SYNOPSIS
jpegtran [ options ] [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
jpegtran performs various useful transformations of JPEG files. It can translate the coded representation from one vari-
ant of JPEG to another, for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also perform some re-
arrangements of the image data, for example turning an image from landscape to portrait format by rotation.
jpegtran works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without ever fully decoding the image. Therefore,
its transformations are lossless: there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used djpeg fol-
lowed by cjpeg to accomplish the same conversion. But by the same token, jpegtran cannot perform lossy operations such
as changing the image quality.
jpegtran reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the
standard output.
OPTIONS
All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -optimize may be written -opt or -o. Upper and lower case are equiva-
lent. British spellings are also accepted (e.g., -optimise), though for brevity these are not mentioned below.
To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file, jpegtran accepts a subset of the switches recognized by
cjpeg:
-optimize
Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters.
-progressive
Create progressive JPEG file.
-restart N
Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number.
-arithmetic
Use arithmetic coding.
-scans file
Use the scan script given in the specified text file.
See cjpeg(1) for more details about these switches. If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG
output file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file.
The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches:
-flip horizontal
Mirror image horizontally (left-right).
-flip vertical
Mirror image vertically (top-bottom).
-rotate 90
Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise.
-rotate 180
Rotate image 180 degrees.
-rotate 270
Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw).
-transpose
Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis).
-transverse
Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis).
The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimensions. The other transformations operate rather
oddly if the image dimensions are not a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pixels), because they can only trans-
form complete blocks of DCT coefficient data in the desired way.
jpegtran's default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed to preserve exact reversibility and mathemat-
ical consistency of the transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image area. Horizontal mir-
roring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly,
vertical mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is able to flip all columns. The other
transforms can be built up as sequences of transpose and flip operations; for consistency, their actions on edge pixels
are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding transpose-and-flip sequence.
For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels rather than having a strange-looking strip
along the right and/or bottom edges of a transformed image. To do this, add the -trim switch:
-trim Drop non-transformable edge blocks.
Obviously, a transformation with -trim is not reversible, so strictly speaking jpegtran with this switch is not
lossless. Also, the expected mathematical equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example,
-rot 270 -trim trims only the bottom edge, but -rot 90 -trim followed by -rot 180 -trim trims both edges.
-perfect
If you are only interested in perfect transformations, add the -perfect switch. This causes jpegtran to fail with
an error if the transformation is not perfect.
For example, you may want to do
(jpegtran -rot 90 -perfect foo.jpg || djpeg foo.jpg | pnmflip -r90 | cjpeg)
to do a perfect rotation, if available, or an approximated one if not.
-crop WxH+X+Y
Crop the image to a rectangular region of width W and height H, starting at point X,Y. The lossless crop feature
discards data outside of a given image region but losslessly preserves what is inside. Like the rotate and flip
transforms, lossless crop is restricted by the current JPEG format; the upper left corner of the selected region
must fall on an iMCU boundary. If it doesn't, then it is silently moved up and/or left to the nearest iMCU bound-
ary (the lower right corner is unchanged.)
Other not-strictly-lossless transformation switches are:
-grayscale
Force grayscale output.
This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting
in a grayscale JPEG file. The luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing to
grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompression. This switch is particularly handy for fixing a mono-
chrome picture that was mistakenly encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid
of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for a grayscale JPEG is substantially less
than that for a color JPEG.)
jpegtran also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra" markers, such as comment blocks:
-copy none
Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting suppresses all comments and other excess baggage present in
the source file.
-copy comments
Copy only comment markers. This setting copies comments from the source file but discards any other data which is
inessential for image display.
-copy all
Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves miscellaneous markers found in the source file, such as JFIF
thumbnails, Exif data, and Photoshop settings. In some files, these extra markers can be sizable.
The default behavior is -copy comments. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a, jpegtran always did the equivalent of -copy
none.)
Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are:
-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 converts a baseline JPEG file to progressive form:
jpegtran -progressive foo.jpg > fooprog.jpg
This example rotates an image 90 degrees clockwise, discarding any unrotatable edge pixels:
jpegtran -rot 90 -trim foo.jpg > foo90.jpg
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), djpeg(1), rdjpgcom(1), wrjpgcom(1)
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
The transform options can't transform odd-size images perfectly. Use -trim or -perfect if you don't like the results.
The entire image is read into memory and then written out again, even in cases where this isn't really necessary. Expect
swapping on large images, especially when using the more complex transform options.
11 October 2010 JPEGTRAN(1)
