priyapatelsp / compressiontool

This is a compression tool made based on Huffman coding

Compression Tool

Compression Tool is a tool prepared using Leveraging Huffman coding, it efficiently compresses files, optimizing storage and enhancing data management using Python .

Get started

This tool is in Python , so please ensure that you have latest Python version installed in your device

step 1: git clone https://github.com/priyapatelsp/CompressionTool.git

step 2: Follow the below steps to start the program

Compressing ::

Please type the below command to execute this python program

Step 1: Navigate to the location of the folder and then type below code(since I've used Python3)

Python3

Step 2: Then import the compressionTool

from compressionTool import CompressionTool

Step 3: Define a path variable - it's the location of the text file you need to compress.

path="{PATH OF THE TEXT FILE YOU NEED TO COMPRESS}"

Step 4: Make an object for compression tool

compressionObj=CompressionTool(path)

Step 5: Call the function to compress the file

compressionObj.compress()

You will get the path of compressed file, you can observe the decresed file size. To get it decompressed and open the file you can follow below steps

Decompressing ::

Please type the below command to open the compressed file

Step 1: Define a path variable - it's the location of the compressed text file.

pathCompressedFile="{PATH OF THE COMPRESSED .BON FILE YOU GOT}"

Step 2:Call the function to compress the file on terminal after following above steps

compressionObj.decompress(pathCompressedFile)

Useful resources for Huffman coding

huffman-coding-greedy
huffman-coding-using-priority-queue
huffman-coding-python

Author

Priya Patel
Github : priyapatelsp