What is the difference between .pcd and .g4?
- Name
- Photo CD
- Group 4 FAX
- Extension
- .pcd
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Fax
- Developer
- Kodak
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- This format was developed by Kodak in order to store images on optical or other media. It is used as a format for archiving scanned documents on Kodak devices. It encodes images in 24-bit color and supports resolutions of up to 6144x4096 pixels.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- image/x-photo-cd
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.pcd
- Wikipedia
- .pcd on Wikipedia