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Re: Trinary image compression

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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
) I very much like the idea of JBIG and the compression of binary
) (black, white, but no gray or other colors) images.
)
) There are, however, some books, at least computer manuals,
) written with two ink colors. (Black and blue for example.)
)
) There is, as far as I know, no JTIG compression for trinary
) (black, blue, white) images. (Presumably one could allow for
) any three colors, likely one being white.)
)
) More specifcally, there are many DEC manuals in bitsavers
) that have lost some bits in scanning. If there was a format
) to store them in, there might be more interest in doing it.

I think it would be easiest if you split the image in two,
one containing the black text and one containing the blue text.


SaSW, Willem
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Trinary image compression glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-22 19:22 +0000
  Re: Trinary image compression Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2012-10-22 20:53 +0000
    Re: Trinary image compression glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-22 23:43 +0000
      Re: Trinary image compression Niels Fröhling <spamtrap@adsignum.com> - 2012-10-22 20:41 -0600
    Re: Trinary image compression Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-10-23 08:39 +0200
      Re: Trinary image compression glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-23 06:59 +0000

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