Introduction

This project is made to develop the keen understanding of the Huffman Coding Algorithm. This project is being developed under the academic section as minor project. The purpose of this project is to return the files after being compressed of the files provided by the user and similarly to provide the uncompressed data of the given compressed version of the text data.

How to run the backend?

1. Clone this repository to the desired location
2. Install pycharm and python of latest versions
3. Open the cloned repository in pycharm
4. Make a new directory named "temp"
5. Set up the virtual environment
6. Run the command to install the necessary modules:

pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Run the command to run the backend

uvicorn main:app --reload