Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] djvu; oh my, that's interesting...

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 3/1/06, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> So questions come up periodically about getting hardcopy stuff onto
> the web.  Here's another idea:
>
> http://www.djvuzone.org/
>
> As far as I understand it, this suggests that one can possibly look
> forward to having a lot of stuff on-line in a readable (if not
> searchable) format more easily than one might think.  I'm amused.  (I
> became aware of this when a book that gone into the PD pointed out
> that you could download it in djvu format at 6 MB, or the scanned PDF
> at 32 MB...
>
> jking
>

Yeah, I ran across this last year when I downloaded some old radio
schematics.  I was annoyed at a new format at first, but after using
it, I was rather impressed.  It's made specifically for scanned text. 
It also helps that an open-source viewer was already in my yum
repositories, so install was just "yum install djvulibre".

I don't know if the format will lead to more information being placed
online, however.  I would guess the labor is the most expensive part
of the scanning operation.   But a fivefold improvement in coding
efficiency is quite an advance.

Regards,
Mark
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