Comparison Study of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms for Text Data

Data Compression is the technique through which, we can reduce the quantity of data, used to represent content without excessively reducing the quality of the content. This paper examines the performance of a set of lossless data compression algorithm, on different form of text data. A set of selected algorithms are implemented to evaluate the performance in compressing text data. A set of defined text file are used as test bed. The performance of different algorithms are measured on the basis of different parameter and tabulated in this article. The article is concluded by a comparison of these algorithms from different aspects. Keywords - Encryption, Entropy Encoding, Dictionary Encoding, Compression Ratio, Compression time, Test Bed.