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IMAGING GLOSSARY

Compression (imaging)

An image processing method for saving valuable disk and memory space by reducing the amount of space required to save a digital image.

The graphics data is rewritten allowing it to be represented by a smaller set of data by eliminating redundant or unnecessary information in a file.

Not to be confused with encoding.

See lossless and lossy.

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