Text Compressor using Huffman Coding

This project implements a text compression algorithm using Huffman coding. Huffman coding is a popular method for lossless data compression, which assigns variable-length codes to input characters, with shorter codes assigned to more frequent characters.

Features

• Compress text files using Huffman coding
• Decompress the compressed files back to their original form
• Efficient encoding and decoding processes

Tech Stack

• Programming Language: C++
• Compiler: g++
• Version Control: Git

Installation

1. Clone the repository: bash git clone https://github.com/mihir2004/TextComp.git cd Text_compressor

2. Ensure you have a C++ compiler installed. For example, you can install g++ if it's not already installed: bash sudo apt-get install g++

3. Compile the project: bash g++ project.cpp -o text_compressor

File Descriptions

1. project.cpp: The main C++ source file containing the implementation of the compressor and decompressor.
2. input.txt: Sample input text file.
3. output.txt: Sample output file after compression or decompression.

Usage

1. Compress a file: bash ./text_compressor input.txt output.txt

2. Decompress a file: bash ./text_compressor -d output.txt decompressed.txt

Contribution

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-branch).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add new feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature-branch).
5. Create a new Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.