DjVu files are typically seperated into three images - the background and foreground (around 100 dpi) and the mask image which is higher resolution (e.g. It promises smaller files sizes than standard PDF's and is therefore perceived to be superior to PDF's primarily due to it's higher compression ratio.
There are a whole host of DjVu viewers, browser plugins, encoders and decoders available on both Mac and Windows.ĭJVU to PDF - Convert file now View other document file formatsĭjVu was initially developed by Yann LeCun, L�on Bottou, Patrick Haffner, and Paul G.
It allows for scanned documents, photographs and very high resolution images to be distributed via the internet. DjVu was initially developed by AT&T and is used as an image compression technology that is an open sourced alternative to PDF.
