tiraimg is a JPEG-clone. It features a compressor/decompressor for PPM image format.

Build prerequisites:

libnetpbm10-dev
gcc 4.6.3 or newer

To build the project:

$ make all	

When the project has been built you can run the tests with

$ make check

To compress use

$ tiraimg -q 50 source.ppm destination.timg

and for decompression type

$ tiraimg -d destination.timg source.ppm

See tiraimg -h for more.