The National Archives
Search our website
  • Search our website
  • Search our records
   
 
Image of software box and CD PRONOM
Welcome (PRONOM  home page) About PRONOM Add an entry
Search Help - opens in a new window Information resources - opens in a new window
 
 
 

*Details: File format summary

   
 

 

Search by keyword Search by file format Search by PUID Search by software Search by vendor Search by lifecycles Search by Migration Pathway

Details for:

Save as... XML | CSV Printer friendly version
 
 

Summary

Name JPEG File Interchange Format
Version 1.02
Other names JFIF (1.02)
Identifiers Library of Congress Format Description Identifier:  fdd000018
PUID:  fmt/44
MIME:  image/jpeg
Apple Uniform Type Identifier:  public.jpeg
Family  
Classification Image (Raster)
Disclosure Full
Description The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is a file format for storing JPEG-compressed raster images. It was developed by the Independent JPEG Group and C-Cube Microsystems, in the absence of any such format being defined in the JPEG standard, and rapidly became a de facto standard. A JFIF file comprises a JPEG data stream together with a JFIF marker. It begins with a Start of Image (SOI) marker, immediately followed by a JFIF Application (APP0) marker and one or more optional application extension markers. This is followed by the JPEG image data, which is terminated by an End of Image (EOI) marker. JFIF supports up to 24-bit colour and uses lossy compression (based on the Discrete Cosine Transform algorithm). Other types of compression are available through JPEG extensions, including progressive image buildup, arithmetic encoding, variable quantization, selective refinement, image tiling, and lossless compression, but these may not be supported by all JFIF readers and writers.
Orientation Binary
Byte order Big-endian (Motorola)
Related file formats Has priority over Raw JPEG Stream  
Is subsequent version of JPEG File Interchange Format (1.01)
Technical Environment  
Released 01 Sep 1992
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by C-Cube Microsystems
Independent JPEG Group
Supported by None.
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 11 Mar 2005
Source description  
Last updated 20 Oct 2022
Note https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000018.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format https://web.archive.org/web/20220624201809/https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/file-types/image/raster/jpeg-file.html https://web.archive.org/web/20221015163305/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
Top of page Top of page
 
         
The National Archives Newsletter Icon

Send me The National Archives’ newsletter

A monthly round-up of news, blogs, offers and events.