Multilingual Lossy Text Compression Using Wavelet Transform

Most of the algorithms of data compression were developed for English language. However, the aptitude of wavelet transform to be multilingual lossy text compression is promised. This paper proposes a new strategy that is based on the wavelet transform applied to text compression of files. The influences of two parameters, namely families of wavelet filters and decomposition levels, on compression factor of seven languages of text files are investigated. The experimental results are shown that the proposed method gives the satisfactory performance of wavelet transform. This work is a step forwards dealing with both images and text compression i.e. multimedia compression.