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From: etxtomp@eos5.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: B/W picture compression routines sought!
Keywords: compression
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.132238.13345@ericsson.se>
Date: 15 Feb 91 13:22:38 GMT
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I'm looking for compression routines for scanned B/W images.

The compression/decompression should be fairly fast.

They are to be included in a C program, so C code would be nice.

The images are of two kinds:
  * Handwritten text with maybe a sketch. Could be compressed be a
    "lossy" algorithm, since the image quality isn't too critical.
    Perhaps an intelligent way of vectorizing the pixel data could
    be applied (the compression factor is important).
  * Pictures from an electronic microscope, I beleive no loss in
    image quality could be accepted.

There is a need to crypt the data, so a routine for that , which
could be incorporated would be fine...

Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se or tope@enea.se