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Text::Lossy

This is a Perl 5 module which implements lossy text compression. Specifically, it implements the "lossy" part to transform any text to a form which is better compressible by standard entropy-based compression algorithms.

Several different lossy text filters are supplied.

Is this a joke?

No, it's serious. Well, ok, partially serious – I can't really see this being used "in production", but it does what it says on the wrapper. Every available filter preserves at least some of the readability and comprehensibility of the text.

But the text stays the same length!

This module only supplies the entropy reduction via lossy transformation of the text. This text is meant to be further processed by a lossless compression, e.g. gzip, 7zip or similar.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Text::Lossy

You can also look for information at:

RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
    http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Text-Lossy

AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
    http://annocpan.org/dist/Text-Lossy

CPAN Ratings
    http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Text-Lossy

Search CPAN
    http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Lossy/

Copyright (C) 2012 Ben Deutsch

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.