A simple Python program which compresses BMP files into a custom JPG-like format using DCT, RLE and Huffman encoding. It also supports decompressing. The compression ratio is usually lower than 20%.
Library used: PIL, numpy, bitstring, dahuffman, pickle.
Compress: python compress.py -e file.bmp
It will output to encoded_file.myjpg.
Decompress: python compress.py -d file.myjpg
It will output to decoded_file.bmp.