Image::...ol::BZZ(3)

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version 13.50 · 14 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 Image::...ol::BZZ(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, this one's a little cutie from the Perl 5.42.1 era and it's giving niche decoder energy 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::BZZ — a whole utility whose entire job is decoding BZZ compressed data 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lowkey the shortest synopsis ever, no cap:

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she's a supporting character, not the main character. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what does this thing actually do? it's a lil container of definitions that Image::ExifTool needs so it can decode BZZ compressed data sitting inside DjVu images. that's the vibe. definitions only, she's not out here doing the heavy lifting herself 🫶

✨ NOTES ✨

ngl there's some lore here and you're gonna wanna hear it 📖

  • this code is based on ZPCodec and BSByteStream from DjVuLibre 3.5.21 (peep the additional copyrights and the first reference below, iykyk), and those are covered under the GNU GPL license.
  • it lives as Image::ExifTool::BZZ instead of Compress::BZZ because — and this is so real — the author is hoping somebody else will write a proper Compress::BZZ module (with compression ability). manifesting that for them fr fr 🙏✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

copyright squad, show some respect 👑

  • Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)
  • Copyright 2002, Leon Bottou and Yann Le Cun
  • Copyright 2001, AT&T
  • Copyright 1999-2001, LizardTech Inc.

and the license tea: this library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💜

✨ REFERENCES ✨

the receipts, bestie 🔍

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these next, they're the besties of this page 🌸

and that's the whole page!! this doc shipped as part of perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and yeah that header up top saying Image::...ol::BZZ(3) is just the truncated title being cute about it 💖 bye bestie, go decode some DjVu 🦋✨

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