What is a DjVu file?
DJVU file is a graphics file format developed by AT&T Labs.
The DJVU file format was primarily designed to store different kinds of scanned documents containing a combination of text, pictures, indexed color images, and line drawings.
This format is very popular due to the high compression ratio of scanned documents. Sometimes the compression ratio is several times higher than in PDF. Because of its strong compression and still high quality of scanned content, it is often used for scanned eBooks, manuals, newspapers, and similar documents.
Files with the DJVU extension can be separated into three different kinds of images: background, foreground, and a higher-resolution mask image.
DjVu files can use the .DJVU or the .DJV file extension.
How to open a DJVU file?
Here is a small, but not exhaustive, list of programs that can open DJVU documents:
- DjVuLibre DjView
- MacDjView Desktop Viewer
- WinDjView
- LizardTech Browser Plug-In
DjVu is also supported by a number of multi-format document viewers and e-book reader software on Linux (Okular, Evince, Zathura), Windows (Okular, SumatraPDF), and Android (Document Viewer, FBReader, EBookDroid, PocketBook).
How to convert DJVU files to PDF online?
If you do not have any programs installed to open a file with the .djvu extension, you can use the PDF2Go online service, which offers quick and easy conversion of a DJVU file into a PDF document.
Find out more: How to convert DJVU to PDF.
