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2. Smallpdf.com - Wikipedia

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   History. Smallpdf was founded in 2013 by Mathis Büchi, Lino Teuteberg, and Manuel Stofer while they were living abroad in Korea. The idea came from the need for their families to compress and send large documents via email. [4] The initial version of the site featured a standalone PDF compression tool. [5] Since then, the online platform has ...

3. PDF - Wikipedia

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   PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [6] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [6] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain. [6]

4. Data compression - Wikipedia

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   Data compression. In information theory, data compression, source coding, [1] or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. [2] Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.

5. Lossy compression - Wikipedia

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   High-compression (low quality) JPEG. In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content. These techniques are used to reduce data size for storing, handling, and transmitting content.

6. Lossless compression - Wikipedia

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   Lossless compression is a class of data compression that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data with no loss of information. Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data exhibits statistical redundancy. [1] By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of ...

7. compress (software) - Wikipedia

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   compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. [1] Compared to gzip 's fastest setting, compress is slightly slower at compression, slightly faster at decompression, and has a significantly lower compression ratio. [2] 1.8 MiB of memory is used to compress the Hutter Prize data, slightly more than gzip's ...