The document discusses the JPEG image compression standard. It describes the basic JPEG compression pipeline which involves encoding, decoding, colour space transform, discrete cosine transform (DCT), quantization, zigzag scan, differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) on the DC component, run length encoding (RLE) on the AC components, and entropy coding using Huffman or arithmetic coding. It provides details on quantization methods, quantization tables, zigzag scan, DPCM, RLE, and Huffman coding used in JPEG to achieve maximal compression of images.