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DjVu^¹

/ˌdiːd͡ʒeɪˈviːju/
/ˌdiːd͡ʒeɪˈvu/
/ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/

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From deja vu, from French déjà-vu, q.v.

noun DjVus · djvu · DJVU

uncountable A file format intended to represent electronic documents, particularly scanned text. DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al. in 1966. It generates files that are smaller than PDF files. […] PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.
countable A file encoded in the DjVu format. Because of Wikimedia's educational mission, MediaWiki supports file types that may be uncommon in other web applications or CMSes, like SVG vector images, and multipage PDFs and DjVus. They are rendered as PNG files, and can be thumbnailed and displayed inline, as are more common image files like GI

djvu^²

noun djvus

alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of DjVu Reading pdf or djvu documents on a mobile reader such as Amazon's Kindle, the Nook or even your smartphone can be quite the challenge due to the smaller screen size.

DJVU^³

noun DJVUs

alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of DjVu The main idea of DJVU is to decompose the document image into three constituent images [17] from which the original document can be reconstructed. The constituent images are: the background image, the foreground image, and the mask image. The first two are low-resolution (100 and 25 dpi, respectivel

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@misc{djvu_2026,
  title = {djvu},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/djvu},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}