Compressing a text file using count of continous characters

[nirvana]

I need to count the number of continous character occurances(more than
1) in a file, and replace it with a compressed version, like below
XYZAAAAAAAADEFAAcdAA --> XYZ8ADEF2Acd2A

Thanks
Sumod
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