golju/huffman-compressor

:mortar_board: Huffman compression and decompression of binary files.

huffman-compressor

🎓 Tool for compression and decompression of binary files using Huffman algorithm.

👍 Tested on macOS BigSur 11.4.

Table of contents

• Build
• Compress files
• Decompress files

Build

git clone https://github.com/golju/huffman-compressor.git
cd huffman-compressor
make

Compress files

To compress file use -c key and write input and output paths:

./huffman -c data/voina-i-mir.txt data/compressed-voina-i-mir.bin

Compare the sizes:

voina-i-mir.txt : 3 675 057 B
compressed-voina-i-mir.bin : 2 271 747 B

Decompress files

To decompress file write input and new_output paths:

./huffman data/compressed-voina-i-mir.bin data/decompressed-voina-i-mir.txt

To compare two files binary:

diff data/voina-i-mir.txt data/decompressed-voina-i-mir.txt