README.md

libcoders

Simple library that lets you compress files (6 algorithms available: Shennon, Fano, Huffman, Bigram Huffman, Adaptive Huffman and Arithmetic coding).

Made for educational purposes.

How-to-use:

1. Build, run and get help

• Build

  $ make default
  

• Help

  $ ./libcoders -h
  

• Usage example

  $ ./libcoders -c -i input_file.txt -o encoded_file -m shennon
  $ ./libcoders -d -i encoded_file -o decoded_file.txt -m shennon
  

2. Clean project

• Clean

  $ make clean
  

GUI

There is also a GUI version of this project available here.