Information AboutDjvu |
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Progressive loading makes the format ideal for images served over the Internet . DjVu has been promoted as an alternative to PDF , actually outperforming PDF on most scanned documents. This has led to its widespread use in distributing math books on file sharing networks. Like PDF, DjVu can contain an OCR ed text layer, making it easy to perform Cut And Paste operations. The DjVu technology was originally developed by Yann Le Cun , Léon Bottou , Patrick Haffner , and Paul G. Howard at AT&T Laboratories in 1996 . DjVu is an Open File Format. The file format specification is published as well as source code for the reference library. The ownership rights to the commercial development of the encoding software have been transferred to different companies over the years, including AT&T and LizardTech . The original authors maintain a GPL ed implementation named "'' DjVuLibre ''". In books online (along with TIFF and PDF). EXTERNAL LINKS
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