1JBIG-KIT implements a highly effective data compression algorithm for 2bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned documents. 3 4This is a portable library of compression and decompression functions 5with a documented interface that can be included into your image or 6document processing software. Also provided are ready-to-use compression 7and decompression programs with a simple command line interface (similar 8to the converters found in Jef Poskanzer's PBM conversion package). 9 10JBIG-KIT implements the specification 11 12 International Standard ISO/IEC 11544:1993 and ITU-T Recommendation 13 T.82(1993), "Information technology - Coded representation of picture 14 and audio information - progressive bi-level image compression", 15 <http://www.itu.ch/itudoc/itu-t/rec/t/t82_23822.html>, 16 17which is commonly referred to as the "JBIG standard". JBIG (Joint 18Bi-level Image experts Group) is the committee which developed this 19international standard for the lossless compression of images using 20arithmetic coding. Like the well-known compression algorithms JPEG and 21MPEG, also JBIG has been developed and published by the International 22Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International 23Telecommunication Union (ITU) (see also <http://www.iso.ch/> and 24<http://www.itu.ch/>). 25