On 22-6-2011 10:32, Kip Warner wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:51 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
it's mostly an image format (efficient storage of scanned documents) and in that sense it's an alternative (jbig2 is another candidate)
Hans
That's what I was thinking too at first, that's it's mostly for scanned documents. But since it is trying to be a replacement for PDF and it has most of the same features, I think it's more than just that now.
- the starting point is scanned images - there can be an ocr layer but still the image is the core - pdf is more: colorspaces, vector graphics, annotations, etc So, a djvu document would be less sophisticated. It might not matter for many cases, and one could probably make a backend to produce something reasonable but it's not worth the trouble I fear. As mentioned, it's probably easier to convert the pdf into a djvu with a postprocessor. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------