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A lossless compression method reduces the size of the image with no lost information. The decompressed image is exactly the same as the original image. A lossless compression scheme retains all the information but typically is not as efficient due to the restrictions of retaining all data.
A lossless compression method reduces the size of the data with no lost information. The decompressed data is exactly the same as the original. This is typically not as efficient as [[lossy compression]] due to the restrictions of retaining all information.
 
==See Also==
*[[:Category:Lossless Audio Codecs]]
*[[:Category:Lossless Video Codecs]]
 
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Latest revision as of 02:50, 4 June 2007

A lossless compression method reduces the size of the data with no lost information. The decompressed data is exactly the same as the original. This is typically not as efficient as lossy compression due to the restrictions of retaining all information.

See Also