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Preferred term

JPEG  

Definition

  • JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group – is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality.

Identifier

  • JPEG

Notation

  • image/jpeg
  • jepg
  • .jpeg
  • .jpg

In other languages

  • JPEG

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/JPEG

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