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JPEG Format Hub

JPEG (.jpeg) is a lossy raster format optimized for photographic imagery. It supports baseline and progressive encoding, EXIF metadata, and restart markers. Use sample .jpeg files to verify quality settings, metadata extraction, and progressive decode workflows.

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