Image compression using H.264 and deflate algorithm

Compound image is combination of text, graphics and pictures. Compression is the process of reducing the amount of data required to represent information. It also reduces the time required for the data to be sent over the Internet or Web pages. Compound image compression is done on the basis of lossy and lossless compression. Lossy compression is a data encoding method that compresses data by discarding (losing) some data in the image. Lossless compression is used to compress the image without any loss of data in the image. Image compression is done using lossy compression and lossless compression. In this paper different techniques are used for compressing compound images. The performance of these techniques has been compared.