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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: What kind of compression/format is used in T.4
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:15:10 GMT
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- In article <9DEC199211134810@elroy.uh.edu>, st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
- - What kind of compression and/or graphical format is used in the T.4
- - data? Someone told me it is a standard TIFF format. Is that true?
- - Is it a simple format or does one have to go and buy the expensive
- - CCITT documents to decode the T.4 image?
-
- Run length encoding.
-
- The number of consecutive "black" or "white" bits is stored, starting with a
- white block. They are not stored as fixed length numbers (i.e. four bit for
- each group), but in variable length bit strings, with different bit strings
- encoding black and white runs. Comes naturally to comms people, others
- just need to use the look up table. To make it more interesting, the bit order
- is inverted along the way, and documented in the opposite way to which it is
- used....
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- Thomas
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