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- From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
- Subject: I want specs for CCITT group 4 Fax
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- Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:44:46 GMT
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-
- Subject says it all. It is question 18 in the FAQ of
- comp.compression.
-
- However, I don't get it. I _could_ find the file 7_3_02.txt
- (although it's somewhere else in the directory hierarchy than
- the FAQ says), but it seems to be hopelessly garbled.
-
- So.
-
- My question: where do I find a description of the CCITT group 4 Fax
- compression, aka Modified Modified READ (Relative Element Address
- Designate) compression, aka MMR compression.
-
-
- The reason I want to know is because of the following excerpts from
- `Etext.workshop', the proceedings of the workshop on electronic texts
- held 9-10 June 1992 at the Library of Congress:
-
- With binary scanning, large files may be
- compressed efficiently and in a lossless manner (i.e., no data is lost in
- the process of compressing [and decompressing] an image--the exact
- bit-representation is maintained) using Group 4 CCITT (i.e., the French
- acronym for International Consultative Committee for Telegraph and
- Telephone) compression. CXP was getting compression ratios of about
- forty to one. ...
-
- CCITT Group 4 is the standard compression for normal black-and-white
- images, ...
-
- This made me curious how this compression works.
-
-
- Also, in RFC 1314 -- A File Format for the Exchange of Images in the
- Internet -- I read:
-
- Images should be compressed using MMR when possible.
-
- while earlier, it said:
-
- Note that this specification [i.e., RFC 1314] is self contained ...
-
- This seems false because no description of MMR compression is included.
-
-
- So, please help me to satisfy my curiosity!
-
- Freek
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- a symbol and an object is quantitative, not qualitative.
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