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LZW: Compress and uncompress data with LZW algorithm

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This class can be used to compress and uncompress data with the LZW algorithm in pure PHP code.

It can take a string of data and compress it with the LZW algorithm. It can also do the opposite, i.e. extract the original data from compressed string using the same algorithm.

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PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
August 2007
Number 7

Prize: One license of PHPEdit Professional		 LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) is a compression algorithm made popular for its use in the formats GIF, TIFF and PDF.

This class can be used to compress and decompress data that uses LZW algorithm in pure PHP.

It makes possible to encode and decode image and documents that employ this algorithm using only pure PHP code, thus without any special PHP extensions.

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The LZW Patent is expired, here is proof from Unisys themselves.
Wikipedia Description of LZW