JBIG-KIT provides a portable library of compression and decompression functions with a documented interface that you can include very easily into your image or document processing software. In addition, JBIG-KIT provides ready-to-use compression and decompression programs with a simple command line interface (similar to the converters found in netpbm). JBIG-KIT implements the specification: ISO/IEC 11544:1993 and ITU-T Recommendation T.82(1993): Information technology — Coded representation of picture and audio information — Progressive bi-level image compression which is commonly referred to as the “JBIG1 standard”