djvu
/ˌdiːd͡ʒeɪˈviːju/
djvu is the alternative form of DjVu.
Noun (1) capitalized: DjVu
DjVu (countable and uncountable, plural DjVus)
- 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.2021, Alexander Thomasian, Storage Systems..., §2.13.7
- DjVu is a relatively old and no longer developed file format devised by AT&T, used to store scanned images. None of the VirusTotal anti-virus scanners detected the CySource researchers' Base64 encoded payload added to the metadata of the malicious DjVu file. The researchers found that "instead of...2022 April 26, Juha Saarinen, "Google's VirusTotal Service Vulnerable for Over Eight Months", iTnews
- 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...2012, Sumana Harihareswara & al., "MediaWiki", The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol. II, p. 191
Noun (2) capitalized: DJVU
DJVU (countable and uncountable, plural DJVUs)
- 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...2002, B.G. Haskell & al., "Image and Video Coding—Emerging Standards and Beyond", Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, p. 93
Forms of djvu
| plural | djvus |
|---|---|
| plural | DjVus |
| alternative form | djvu |
| alternative form | DJVU |
| plural | DJVUs |
Origin of djvu
From deja vu, from French déjà-vu, q.v.
Questions about djvu
- What does djvu mean?
- Djvu means a file format intended to represent electronic documents, particularly scanned text.
- What is djvu the alternative form of?
- Djvu is the alternative form of DjVu.
- What part of speech is djvu?
- Djvu is a noun.
- How do you pronounce djvu?
- Djvu is pronounced /ˌdiːd͡ʒeɪˈviːju/.
- What is the plural of djvu?
- The plural of djvu is djvus.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: djvu (page history and authors); DjVu (page history and authors); DJVU (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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