Technical Papers

Here a collection of technical papers about DjVu, many of them in both DjVu and gzipped Postscript. We think they offer a dramatic illustration of DjVu's greater flexibility and efficiency.

Technical Papers from AT&T Labs

[182K] [76K] Léon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Yann Le Cun, Paul Howard, Pascal Vincent. DjVu: Un Système de Compression d'Images pour la Distribution Réticulaire de Documents Numérisés.  (DjVu: An image compression system for distributing scanned document on the Internet). Actes de la Conférence Internationale Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document, Lyon, France, July 2000. [94K] [70K] Patrick Haffner, Yann Le Cun, Léon Bottou, Paul Howard, Pascal Vincent. Color Documents on the Web with DjVu, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, vol 1, pp 239-243, Kobe, Japan, October 1999 [95K] [1852K] Patrick Haffner, Léon Bottou, Paul Howard, Yann Le Cun.  DjVu : Analyzing and Compressing Scanned Documents for Internet Distribution. Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. pp 625-628, 1999 [136K] [800K] Yann Le Cun, Léon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Paul Howard. DjVu: a compression method for distributing scanned documents in color over the internet, Color 6, IST, 1998. [285K] [1804K]   Léon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Paul G. Howard, Patrice Simard, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann Le Cun, Browsing through High Quality Document Images with DjVu.  In Proceedings of IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries'98, IEEE, 1998 [559K] [1993K]   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, vol 7, no 3, pp 410-425, SPIE, 1988. [159K] [400K]   Léon Bottou, Steven Pigeon. Lossy Compression of Partially Masked Still Images.  Extended version. Abstract was published in  Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference DCC'98, page 528, Snowbird, March 1998 [83K] [86K]   Léon Bottou, Paul G. Howard, Yoshua Bengio.The Z-Coder Adaptive Binary Coder. In Proceedings of IEEE Data Compression Conference DCC'98, pages 13-22, Snowbird, March 1998

Specification Documents

Specification of DjVu Image Compression Format Version of 1999-04-29 15:46 EDT Copyright (c) 1999 by AT&T

Non-AT&T Papers Relating to DjVu

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