  Lossy JPEG compression is a widely used compression technique. Normally the
JPEG standard technique uses three process mapping reduces interpixel
redundancy, quantization, which is lossy process and entropy encoding, which is
considered lossless process. In this paper, a new technique has been proposed
by combining the JPEG algorithm and Symbol Reduction Huffman technique for
achieving more compression ratio. The symbols reduction technique reduces the
number of symbols by combining together to form a new symbol. As a result of
this technique the number of Huffman code to be generated also reduced. It is
simple fast and easy to implement. The result shows that the performance of
standard JPEG method can be improved by proposed method. This hybrid approach
achieves about 20% more compression ratio than the Standard JPEG.
