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OCR: Compact Pro User's Guide Compact Pro can store up to 1500 files and folders in an archive Segmented archives are limited to 255 segment files. How Does Data Compression Work? Compact Pro "compresses" the data in a file by analyzing the data and then encoding f in a more efficient manner. The encoded data takes up much less space, but still contains all of the "in formation in the original file For example if a document contained the character repeated 20 times, most word processing programs would store this as 20 individual charact ters. By encoding the repeated charact ters as 20(A only charac ters are required. The resulting data IS much smal ller, but all of the original meaning IS retained By using complementary decoding process the original file can be later produced from the compress ...