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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Jonathan King 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...


I am really surprised that this is the first I've heard of djvu.  It 
sounds like a great format.  I sometimes scan journal articles to PDF, 
which makes them big image files, not OCR, so I could use something that 
would do a better job.  The only problem is that almost no one knows about 
this format, so I can't just put a file on the web and have people easily 
make use of it.  I'll end up just like the guys with the book:

scanned PDF: 32 MB
djvu format:  6 MB
my web site: 38 MB

Not much savings there.  But I hope djvu will catch on and I can feel 
comfortable getting down to this:

my web site:  6 MB

Mike

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