Managing Gigabytes : Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images

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Springer US, Jun 2, 1994 - Business & Economics - 429 pages
The end result of applying the techniques described here is a computer system that can store millions of documents, and retrieve the documents that contain any given combination of keywords in a matter of seconds or fractions of a second. Written for an eclectic audience of information professionals and for graduate courses. Sections for technically or theoretically oriented readers can be skipped by others without loss of continuity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents

Overview
1
Text Compression
21
Indexing
72
Querying
116
Index Construction
175
Image Compression
212
Textual Images
254
Mixed Text and Images
295
Implementation
328
The Information Explosion
375
A Guide to the mg System
391
Nontextual files
407
Index
425
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