DJVU - DJVU Ebook Format

Format introduction:

DjVu is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs.

Technical details:

DjVu uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy compression for bitonal (monochrome) images. This allows for high-quality, readable images to be stored in a minimum of space, so that they can be made available on the web.

 

File extension	.djvu, .djv
MIME	image/vnd.djvu, image/x-djvu
Developed by	AT&T Labs - Research
Type of format	Document file formats
Associated programs	SumatraPDF, Evince.
Sample file	sample.djvu
Wiki	DJVU on Wikipedia