Historical
Documents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.
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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.
The
National Library of the Czech Republic is
using DjVu to offer access to their gorgeous
collection of Arabic manuscripts.
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.
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| Business |
Corporate
Report
Get
financial corporate reports online using
DjVu. DjVu makes possible what PDF couldn't.
DjVu enables us to scan in complete documents
at high resolution whilst keeping the document
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| 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.
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Transaction
Records
This bill of lading
shows the power of DjVu for keeping records
of financial transactions that would otherwise
be on paper.
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| Ecommerce |
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.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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