text-compressor-tira

Text compressor developed as a part of Data Structures & Algorithms Project Course at University of Helsinki. Both, Huffman and Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithms, have been implemented into the compressor.

See the Implementation document for performance results.

Links to documentation

Design document

Testing document

Implementation document

Weekly Reports

• Weekly report #1
• Weekly report #2
• Weekly report #3
• Weekly report #4
• Weekly report #5
• Weekly report #6

Installation

You need to have python3 and poetry installed on your system

1. Install dependencies:

poetry install

2. Launch the program:

poetry run invoke start

User Manual

Compression

1. Move your desired text files into the data folder under /src
2. Follow the prompts from the program to compress it, using either Huffman or LZW!
3. Your compressed file should now be a .bin file in the same data folder

Decompression

1. Follow the prompts from the program to decompress a .bin file
2. Your decompressed file should now be in the data folder with the name: {file_name}_decompressed

Commands

Check codestyle:

poetry run invoke codestyle