DjVu
DjVu (pronounced like French déjà vu) is a open computer file format. It is made mostly to store scanned documents. It is especially used for things with a mix of words, line drawings, and photographs inside. DjVu has been sold as an alternative[2] to PDF, as it gives smaller files than PDF for most scanned documents. The DjVu developers report[3] that color magazine pages make smaller to 40–70 kB. Black and white technical papers make it smaller to 15–40 kB. Old manuscripts make smaller to around 100 kB; a satisfactory JPEG image usually needs 500 kB. Like PDF, DjVu can have a OCR text layer. This makes it easy to cut and paste, and search for text.
| Filename extension | .djvu, .djv |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | image/vnd.djvu |
| Type code | DJVU |
| Developed by | AT&T Research |
| Initial release | 1996 |
| Latest release | |
| Type of format | Image file formats |
| Website | www.djvu.org |
References
- ↑ DjVu File Format Version Archived 2017-06-22 at the Wayback Machine,By Jim Rile, Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:08 am, PlanetDjVu
- ↑ "What is DjVu - DjVu.org". DjVu.org. Archived from the original on 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ↑ Léon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Paul G. Howard, Patrice Simard, Yoshua Bengio and Yann Le Cun: High Quality Document Image Compression with DjVu, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 7(3):410-425, 1998 http://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/jei-1998.pdf
