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- From: IRHANV00@UKCC.UKY.EDU
- Subject: Re: Best compression for 24 bit images
- References: <1992Aug28.133552.16085@crd.ge.com>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:12:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.133552.16085@crd.ge.com>
- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
-
- >
- >What is the best way to do lossless compression of 24 bit images? I am
- >currently using 24 bit tiff with lzw and the pnmtotiff program
- >(-predictor 2). JPEG is not lossless and can't be considered, the
- >restored image must be pixel by pixel identical.
- >
- >Note: please delete any newsgroups you feel would not be interested in
- >your reply, I covered all the places where I see discussion like thai.
- >--
- >bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- > I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-
- There is a compression progrm out called HPACK which works wonders on image
- files. This utility is available on many archives, including wuarchive. I have
- seen compression using this utility on many image file formats which went from
- about 20% to up to 60%! Everone knows this is remarkable for images. Try it out
- for yourself. It is lossless (as far as I was able to discern). I compressed &
- decompressed some image files, then compared the result to the original image
- file and they were identical. The one thing I should mention, however, is that
- in the version I have, the author states that this version is a prototype, so
- bear that in mind.
- Forrest
-