The document discusses static dictionary coding techniques for data compression. It begins by explaining that dictionary coding uses a list of symbols and strings, rather than statistical models like Huffman or arithmetic coding. It then describes how static dictionary coding works: a fixed dictionary is produced in advance containing frequently occurring strings; during encoding and decoding, strings in the dictionary are replaced with indexes, while unmatched strings are encoded less efficiently. As an example, it outlines how a simple diagram coding technique encodes pairs of symbols by checking the dictionary before encoding symbols individually.