- Extension
- .pbm
- .jbig
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG)
- Description
- 1-bit black and white image; formatted in text format; basic raster image format in which each pixel is represented by a byte that contains a 1 or 0; 1 represents black and 0 represents white pixels.
- 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/x-portable-bitmap
- image/jbig
