selective jpeg compression

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aagis

selective jpeg compression

Post by aagis »

Hello,

I am trying to compress a newspaper page containing images and text and have split the image in two layers:
A jpeg layer containing the images and a png layer containing the text.
The png layer is supposed to be displayed over the jpeg so there are parts of the jpeg I do not really care about.

My question is whether I can use imagemagick or any other tool to optimally compress this partially masked image?
Some bytes can be squeezed from the fact that I do not care about the values of some pixels and I need to use that fact in order to reduce size as much as possible.

Actually, I am looking for something similar to the c44 utility (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/doc/man/c44.html -mask option) which allows partially masked images to compress well for djvu wavelet but I need it for jpeg.

Any help will be greatly appreciated...
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