Vague text compression

  • Authors:

  • Andrew Davison

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A new approach to the "lossy" compression of text is described, based on the computational benefits of reading handwritten text, as opposed to text set in a more formal typographical style. Specifically, a new class of fonts, called vague fonts, are proposed which encode the vagueness of handwriting. Text written using a vague font can be compressed to a much greater degree than the same text represented in a conventional font.