Prague Stringology Conference 2025
Shmuel Tomi Klein and Dana Shapira
Electronic Alternatives to Micro-Fiches
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| Micro-fiches have historically been used for distributing and storing large amounts of data, but data access was slow and cumbersome, and searching for a specific item was often involved with hour-long browsing. Today there are of course electronic alternatives, and we study the possibility of recoding {\it logically\/} a printed page, instead of {\it physically\/} reducing its size. Such coding allows subsequent lossless compression techniques to be applied. The paper describes the suggested process, including a novel approach to compress numerical data, and presents the details of a typical example. |
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