International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 116 - Number 16 |
Year of Publication: 2015 |
Authors: Debashis Chakraborty, Debajyoti Ghosh, Piyali Ganguly |
10.5120/20420-2720 |
Debashis Chakraborty, Debajyoti Ghosh, Piyali Ganguly . A Dictionary based Efficient Text Compression Technique using Replacement Strategy. International Journal of Computer Applications. 116, 16 ( April 2015), 19-23. DOI=10.5120/20420-2720
The concept of compression comes from the need to store data using as less space as possible and to ease transfer of data through a channel. The proposed algorithm deals with compression of text files using character replacement technique. For every string of length six, it is compressed by assigning a single character to it, maintaining a dictionary. The dictionary is used to decompress the encoded file. This gives a good compression ratio irrespective of the content of the text file.