Document Express with DjVu

Sample DjVu Documents

Business

• Forms
  Despite the growing importance of web-based forms, paper-based forms are still widely used in the corporate world. DjVu is the perfect solution for storing and displaying these paper-based forms. A good example is medical claim forms. This example in particular show the advantage of preserving the color information.
  
  
• Transaction Records
  This bill of lading shows the power of DjVu for keeping records of financial transactions that would otherwise be on paper.
  

Ecommerce

• Online Newspapers
  This online newspaper sample The Seattle Weekly March 9, 2005, is a sample of what is possible to create using Document Express products and partner services from RealView.com.au. Contact us for more information.
  
  
• Online Catalogs
  DjVu is the ideal solution for putting printed catalogs on the Internet. An entire catalog can be downloaded in the time it takes to download one page in PDF format, plus, with DjVu, hyperlinks can be easily added to pages for easy access to online order processing systems.
  



• Auctions
  Auction customers appreciate the ability to closesly inspect the items for sale. With its progressive rendering, and its seamless zooming and panning capabilities, DjVu is the answer. For example, TeleTrade.com uses DjVu to show coins, comic books, baseball cards, and other items, with unmatched image quality.
  

Government

• Legal Records
  The Cobb county Clerk Superior Court in Georgia uses DjVu to show real property records on the Web. Here are some examples of legal records and condominium floorplans.
  
  
• Maps
  This 1915 map of Yellowstone National Park comes from the US Library of Congress. It is 5900x6900 pixels, occupies 450KB (the original was 121MB), and will not slow your machine to a crawl when you try to display it unlike its 2.1MB JPEG brother (don't click on the JPEG link unless you have lots of RAM).
  
  
• Land Registry
  Land Registry Administrations around the world are already using DjVu to put their records (e.g. cadastral maps) on the web. Examples include the Swedish National Land Survey. This map is 7600 by 5300 pixels. Yet while the uncompressed original was approximately 120MB, the DjVu image is only 400KB.
  

Education & Science

• Scientific Findings
  Scientists, students and scholars often publish their findings electronically. The format of choice is often compressed PostScript. Unfortunately, PostScript (even compressed) is cumbersome and inconvenient for screen viewing. DjVu solves all these problems.
  
  - DjVu file format specifications
  - Luc Vincent's publication page
  - Yann LeCun's publication page
  - Leon Bottou's publications page




• Scientific Articles
  Scientific societies, publishers and libraries around the world are scrambling to convert the archives of their journals and conference proceedings into a web-ready form. No technology can approach the performance of DjVu for this application.
  
  
• University Libraries
  DjVu offers university libraries a great opportunity to create document repositories of their digital holdings that originated in various formats, such as Postscript, that were not designed to be web-friendly. The Universittsbibliotek Kaiserslautern has made all its documents available in DjVu, including Ph.D. and Master's theses, technical reports, and external publications KLUEDO. The site includes a special page titled Neues Dataiformat DjVu that explains why DjVu was chosen.
  

Historical Documents

• Records
  Anyone with an interest in History and biographical research will appreciate DjVu's unique ability to bring original documents to the web at high resolution with the details necessary for serious analyses. Here are a few examples.

  Here are a few pages from Walter Brattain's lab notebooks on December 24th 1947, the day the world's first transistor was successfully tested.
  

• Manuscripts
  DjVu is the only image technology that brings these documents to the web in their full splendor. Fragile documents from special collections that are normally kept away from the public can now be distributed over the Internet.
  
  - P. Taieb from the University of Paris Sorbonne has a site with a very nice Java-driven DjVu version of William Fleetwood's 1709 book Chronicon Preciosum.
  

DjVu Public Websites

A non-exhaustive list of public websites using DjVu for publishing scanned books, catalogs, historical documents, research papers, manuals, etc. Click here.