Foreground segmentation with JBIG2 for improved PDF compression: pdf-segmented

Motivation

JBIG2 is an efficient image compression format for bi-level (bi-tonal) images, which is supported by the PDF file format and common PDF viewers. To date, tooling for producing documents using JBIG2 (particularly open source tooling) has been limited; I have previously presented file-jbig2pdf,… »

GIMP 3.0 plug-in for exporting JBIG2-encoded PDF files

JBIG2 is an efficient image compression format for bi-level (bi-tonal) images, which is supported by the PDF file format and common PDF viewers, but which lacks widely available tooling for its generation. GIMP is an open-source image editing suite, which has the capacity to output… »