EFFICIENT TEXT COMPRESSION USING SPECIAL CHARACTER REPLACEMENT AND SPACE REMOVAL

In this paper, we have proposed a new concept of text compression/decompression algorithm using special character replacement technique. Moreover after the initial compression after replacement of special characters, we remove the spaces between the words in the intermediary compressed file in specific situations to get the final compressed text file. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is very simple in implementation, fast in encoding time and high in compression ratio and even gives better compression than existing algorithms like LZW, WINZIP 10.0 and WINRAR 3.93.