djvu

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

noun

A file format intended to represent electronic documents, particularly scanned text.

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

djvu1

noundjvu (countable and uncountable, plural djvus)

plural djvus

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative 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.

    2014 June 20, Martin Brinkmann, “How to Improve the Readability of PDF Documents for Mobile Readers”, in Ghacks

DjVu2

nounDjVu (countable and uncountable, plural DjVus)

plural DjVus · alternative djvu · alternative DJVU

  1. uncountablecomputingA 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
    1 more example

    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 exiftool detecting the metadata of the file it executes our payload."

    2022 April 26, Juha Saarinen, "Google's VirusTotal Service Vulnerable for Over Eight Months", iTnews
  2. countablecomputingA file encoded in the DjVu format.
    1 more example

    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 GIFs, JPGs and PNGs.

    2012, Sumana Harihareswara & al., "MediaWiki", The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol. II, p. 191

DJVU3

nounDJVU (countable and uncountable, plural DJVUs)

plural DJVUs

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of DjVu.
    1 more example

    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, respectively) color images, and the latter is a high-resolution bilevel image (300 dpi).

    2002, B.G. Haskell & al., "Image and Video Coding—Emerging Standards and Beyond", Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, p. 93

Origin

  1. Frenchdéjà-vu
  2. EnglishDjVu

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

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Cite this entry
APA

djvu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/djvu

MLA

“djvu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/djvu. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “djvu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/djvu.

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