Independent JPEG Group

IJG is an informal group that writes and distributes a widely used free library for JPEG image compression.

The latest release is version 6b of 27-Mar-1998. This is a stable and solid foundation for many application's JPEG support.

You can find our code and some supporting documentation at http://www.ijg.org/files/, or by FTP at ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/. If you can't cope with tar.gz-format archives, you may prefer the zip-format release at ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/jpegsr6.zip.

To learn more about how to use JPEG, see the JPEG FAQ. If you'd like to learn about how JPEG works, start with the comp.compression FAQ.

The ISO JPEG standards committee has their own web site. IJG is not affiliated with the ISO committee.

IJG development continues. Advanced features are being prepared for coming releases...

April 16, 2008: Site is restored to service.