PIK

File Format
Name	PIK
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics PIK
Extension(s)	.pik
Released	2017 (draft)

PIK is a raster image file format developed by Google. As of 2019-10, it is a work in progress. The project's source code was made public in 2017-07.

It supports lossy and lossless compression. Among its design goals are to work well with photographic images, and with the internet.

Identification

PIK files begin with signature bytes d7 4c 4d 0a.

Software

• Source code at GitHub

Links

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