Huffman File Zipper

A desktop application to compress text files based on the lossless compression algorithm Huffman Coding.

User Manual

Compressing a Text file

1. Press the Browse button and choose a .txt file.
2. If you want to save the compressed file as a binary file, check the Save compressed data to binary file checkbox.
3. If you want to save the file to a human-readable format instead, make sure to uncheck this checkbox.
4. Press Compress and choose a destination to save the compressed file to.
5. Happy compression! :)

Decompressing an HFZ or HFZB file

1. Press the Browse button and choose a .hfz or a .hfzb file.
2. Press Decompress and choose a destination to save the extracted file to.
3. Happy extraction, too! :)

Change Logs

• 1.0 changelog

For Developers

Design Specifications

Building from Source Code

Used build system:

• CMake 3.29
• Desktop Qt 6.6.2 MinGW 64-bit

Make sure to specify the compiler path in CMake options: "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:/path/to/Qt/x.x.x/mingw_64"

Dependencies:

• GoogleTest 1.15.2

Collaborators

• Mikhael Mounay Khalil
• Marcelino Sedhum
• Kirollos Mounir
• Omar Khalil
• Omar Youssef