JPEG Archive is a small collection of utilities for archiving photos for saving to long term storage or serving over the web.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Command line utilities and scripts.
- Simple options and useful help.
- Good quality output via sane defaults.
- Utilities provided:
- jpeg-archive -compress RAW and JPEG images in the current folder. See the image below for the available options.
- jpeg-compare – available options:
- Set fast comparison image has size.
- Comparison method – choose fast, psnr, ssim, or ms-ssim.
- Parse first input as PPM instead of JPEG.
- Set first input file type to one of auto, jpeg, or ppm.
- Set second input file type to one of auto, jpeg, or ppm.
- jpeg-hash – usage: jpeg-hash [options] image.jpg. Option to the set the fast comparison image hash size.
- jpeg-recompress – available options:
- Set target quality,
- Set a quality preset. Choose from low, medium, high, or very high.
- Set the minimum JPEG quality.
- Set the maximum JPEG quality.
- Set the number of runs to attempt.
- Favor accuracy over speed.
- Set comparison method to mpe, ssim, ms-ssim, or smallfry.
- Strip metadata.
- Set defish strength.
- Set defish zoom.
- Parse input as PPM.
- Disable copying files that will not be compressed.
- Disable progressive encoding.
- Set subsampling method to default or disable.
- Set input file type to auto, jpeg, or ppm.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive
Support:
Developer: Daniel G. Taylor
License: MIT License
JPEG Archive is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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Hi Steve. This is cross-platform on many operating systems.
Hi Torin,. Thanks, article updated.