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Details for: LZ78


Compression Name	LZ78
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Identifier(s)	PUID: x-cmp/18
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Description	LZ compressors are a group of lossless compression schemes developed by Abraham Lempel and Jakob Ziv in 1977-8. LZ78 compression is most commonly used for images, and forms the basis of the LZW algorithm.
Lossiness	Lossless
Released	01 Jan 1978
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