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A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.

It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium.

File formats may be either proprietary or free and may be either unpublished or open.

Data conversion is the conversion of computer data from one format to another.

Throughout a computer environment, data is encoded in a variety of ways.

For example, computer hardware is built on the basis of certain standards, which requires that data contains, for example, parity bit checks.

Similarly, the operating system is predicated on certain standards for data and file handling.

Furthermore, each computer program handles data in a different manner.

Whenever any one of these variables is changed, data must be converted in some way before it can be used by a different computer, operating system or program.

Even different versions of these elements usually involve different data structures.

For example, the changing of bits from one format to another, usually for the purpose of application interoperability or of capability of using new features, is merely a data conversion.

Data conversions may be as simple as the conversion of a text file from one character encoding system to another; or more complex, such as the conversion of office file formats, or the conversion of image and audio file formats.

In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

Compression can be either lossy or lossless.

Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.

No information is lost in lossless compression.

Lossy compression reduces bits by removing unnecessary or less important information.

Free software, freedom-respecting software, or software libre is computer software distributed under terms that allow the software users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute the software and any adapted versions.

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price: users, individually or collectively, are free to do what they want with it, including the freedom to redistribute the software free of charge, or to sell it, or charge for related services such as support or warranty for profit.

An image (from) is an artifact that depicts visual perception, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it.