TepNik / Shannon-Fano-coding

Implementation of Shannon–Fano compressor

Shannon–Fano coding compressor

This is the implementation of Shannon–Fano coding. You can find information about this algorithm here.

Also here you can find file for unit-testing in Visual Studio (CppUnitTestFramework).

File Compression

Compile program

    make

Compress file

    ./sh-fano input_file

Compress input string from console

    ./sh-fano

Then write this string. Output will be in type uint8_t that is casted to int for good looking.

Flags

Custom output file (by default it is input_file.sh-fano)

    -o output_file