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- RDJPGCOM(1) RDJPGCOM(1)
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- NAME
- rdjpgcom - display text comments from a JPEG file
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- SYNOPSIS
- rdjpgcom [ -verbose ] [ filename ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- rdjpgcom reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard
- input if no file is named, and prints any text comments
- found in the file on the standard output.
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- The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks to occur
- within a JPEG file. Although the standard doesn't actu
- ally define what COM blocks are for, they are widely used
- to hold user-supplied text strings. This lets you add
- annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG files,
- and later retrieve them as text. COM blocks do not inter
- fere with the image stored in the JPEG file. The maximum
- size of a COM block is 64K, but you can have as many of
- them as you like in one JPEG file.
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- OPTIONS
- -verbose
- Causes rdjpgcom to also display the JPEG image
- dimensions.
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- Switch names may be abbreviated, and are not case sensi
- tive.
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- HINTS
- rdjpgcom does not depend on the IJG JPEG library. Its
- source code is intended as an illustration of the minimum
- amount of code required to parse a JPEG file header cor
- rectly.
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- SEE ALSO
- cjpeg(1), djpeg(1), jpegtran(1), wrjpgcom(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Independent JPEG Group
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