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I'm interested in encoding data into image files.

The Cemetech TI-84+ calculator emulator uses image files to load the ROM from a phone.

https://www.cemetech.net/projects/jstified/

I couldn't load the ROM for some reason, until I synced the photo to my iPhone via iTunes over USB.

The image gets recompressed when doing a "Save to Camera Roll" or uploading to Facebook.

I did some more investigation with a checkerboard pattern, and was shocked at how quickly the image data was lost.

If there's a way to have error-correcting codes to recover data from an image, please let me know!

(the application for this is to load 9.9 MB of lyrics data into LocalStorage so a user can search songs with Pingtype, and I wouldn't need to host it on my own server where the lyrics are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns)



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