LZW-Image-Compression

An attempt to implement the famous compression algorithm by Lempel-Ziv-Welch. This is not a perfect implementation of the algorithim as it does not perform up to the mark. For further details go to Further Improvements Section

To Run

• Save the LZW.py file
• Use from LZW import LZW
• For compression:
  • compressor = LZW('''Path to Image''')
  • compressor.compress()
• For decompression:
  • decompressor = LZW('''Path to LZW File''')
  • decompressor.decompress()

Further Improvements

• As of now, the compression only works for 8-Bit Images with TIFF format.
• The decompressed image sometimes explodes in size than what it originally was before being compressed.
• A UI to be integrated.