Abstract
In this paper, we propose a method to improve JBIG2 compression ratio which can be applied to Hangul text. Hangul character is composed of a few symbols which is called JASO, which needs inevitable increase of position information to be transmitted. To reduce this disadvantage, we have proposed an algorithm that generate aggregated symbol in combination of JASO symbols. Proposed algorithm shows better performance in Huffman coding than in arithmetic coding. In lossless coding, proposed algorithm showed 4.5∼16.7(%) improvement for Huffman coding and 2.9∼10.4(%) improvement for arithmetic coding. In lossy coding, proposed algorithm showed 3.7∼17.0(%) improvement for Huffman coding and 2.1∼10.5(%) improvement for arithmetic coding.