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From: golds@fjc.GOV (Rich Goldschmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: ABIC from IBM?
Keywords: text and images
Message-ID: <402@fjcp60.GOV>
Date: 25 Apr 91 13:12:33 GMT
Organization: Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C.
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I heard a little about a new algorithm developed by IBM called ABIC.  I don't
know what those letters stand for.  The algorithm has supposedly been
published, and it is being (has been?) implemented in hardware.  It is
claimed to be about 20% better on text images than CCITT group 4, and about
300% better than G4 on half-tones.  

I am looking for more information and implementations and/or products to
experiment with.  I am also interested in anything that is likely to do
significantly better than G4 on document images which are primarily text.



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