JBIG2 Compression in PDF Explained:
There is a really good article explaining what JBIG2 compression does and why it is a good thing written by Franc Gagnon. Click here to read it.
When we came to add JBIG2 decompression to our Java PDF viewer, we found that no support existed in Java, so we wrote our own and released it under a BSD license for the benefit of the whole community – it is actually used by several of our competitors…
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