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+**WARNING: This crate is in maintenance mode as _image-rs_ seeks so move over to the zune-jpeg crate. However, since other Rust JPEG crates do not support lossless mode, we will continue to welcome PRs related to that functionality.**
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 # jpeg-decoder
 
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