---
name: "kdc2jpeg"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kdc2tiff"
version: "0.35-11"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kdc2jpeg"
---

# kdc2jpeg(1)

convert Kodac kdc files to jpeg

## NAME

kdc2jpeg - convert Kodac kdc files to jpeg

## SYNOPSIS

**kdc2jpeg** *\[ global-options \] inputfile \[local-options -o outputfile1 \]*\
 	*\[ local-options -o outputfile2 \] ...*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **kdc2jpeg** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**kdc2jpeg** is a program that converts Kodac kdc files to jpeg with attention to aspect ratio, accurate scaling, contrast adjustment, gamma correction and image rotation.

## OPTIONS

- **-w #**

  output image width

- **-h #**

  output image height

- **-g #**

  absolute gamma correction

- **+g #**

  relative gamma correction

- **-G**

  no grain reduction (default)

- **+G**

  reduce graininess

- **+GG**

  reduce graininess (extra)

- **+e**

  normal contrast enhancement (default)

- **+E #**

  advanced contrast enhancement

- **-e**

  no contrast enhancement

- **-W wht**

  colour of light source

- **+s**

  square pixels (default)

- **-s**

  allow non-square pixels

- **+f**

  fast processing

- **-f**

  slow processing, high quality (default)

- **+p**

  crop image if necessary to fit width and height (default)

- **-p**

  no cropping, width and height are maximums

- **-R**

  don't rotate image (default)

- **+R**

  rotate image clockwise

- **+B**

  rotate image counter-clockwise

- **-C**

  copy note copyright in output file

- **-q #**

  JPEG quality setting (0 to 100, default is 75)

- **+P**

  create progressive JPEG file

## SEE ALSO

[kdc2jpeg(1)](/kdc2jpeg/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Martin Wuertele \<maxx@wuertele.net\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).