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Functionality
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This program will take a list of images and produce a PDF file with the
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images embedded in it. JPEG and JPEG2000 images will be included without
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This program will take a list of images and produce a PDF file with the images
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embedded in it. JPEG and JPEG2000 images will be included without
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recompression. Images in other formats will be included with zip/flate
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encoding. As a result, this tool is able to losslessly wrap any image
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into a PDF container with a quality-filesize ratio that is typically better
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than that of existing tools.
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encoding which usually leads to an increase in the resulting size because
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formats like png compress better than PDF which just zip/flate compresses the
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RGB data. As a result, this tool is able to losslessly wrap images into a PDF
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container with a quality-filesize ratio that is typically better (in case of
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JPEG and JPEG2000 images) or equal (in case of other formats) than that of
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existing tools.
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For example, imagemagick will re-encode the input JPEG image (thus changing
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its content):
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and produce multi-page PDF files when more than one input image is given.
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Also, since JPEG and JPEG2000 images are not reencoded, conversion with
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img2pdf is several (ten to hundred) times faster than with imagemagick.
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While the above convert command with a 2.8MB JPEG took 27 seconds
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(on average) on my machine, conversion using img2pdf took just a
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fraction of a second.
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img2pdf is several times faster than with other tools.
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Usage
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