How can I do LZW decoding in Java?

Question

I have a database which contains picture data stored as a binary blob. The documentation says the data is encoded using LZW. I thought that I could decode it using the Zip o

Answer 1

Here are a couple of links:

• http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/365/li/squeeze/LZW.html

• http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~freskom1/AlgProg1/Progs/LZW.java

• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/java/lzw.aspx

And there are others.

Indeed if the images are LZW compressed TIFF files, The Java Advanced Imaging API apparently supports decoding directly (though not encoding it seems).