- Extension
- .g4
- .jbig
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Fax
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG)
- Description
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- JBIG is a lossless compression file format that was created for the fax machine; it can be used by other image file formats. The files created by JBIG format are smaller compared to G3 and G4 file formats.
- MIME Type
- image/g4fax
- image/jbig
