DjVu

DjVu is a compressed document format developed at AT&T Labs in the mid-1990s, designed to store high-resolution scanned documents at dramatically smaller file sizes than PDF or TIFF. It achieves this by separating a page into distinct layers — background, foreground, and text — and compressing each layer with different algorithms. DjVu became popular for digitizing books and academic journals, particularly in Eastern Europe and for public domain archives like the Internet Archive, though it lacks PDF's broad viewer support.

File extensions	.djvu, .djv
MIME type	image/vnd.djvu
Developer	AT&T Labs
First released	1996
Category	E-books
Open standard	Yes

What opens DjVu files

• DjVu Browser Plugin
• WinDjView (Windows)
• MacDjView (macOS)
• Okular (Linux)
• Calibre (for conversion)

Browse File Formats

Reference details for 53 file formats — extensions, MIME types, what opens each one, and how they convert.

7Z Archives ABW Documents AI Images AVIF Images AZW3 E-books BMP Images CSS Other CSV Spreadsheets DjVu E-books DOC Documents DOCX Documents EPS Images EPUB E-books FB2 E-books GIF Images GZ Archives HEIC Images HTML Documents ICO Images ISO Archives JPG Images JSON Other Keynote Presentations Markdown Documents MOBI E-books Numbers Spreadsheets ODP Presentations ODS Spreadsheets ODT Documents OTF Other Pages Documents PDF Documents PNG Images PPT Presentations PPTX Presentations PSD Images RAR Archives RAW Images RTF Documents SVG Images TAR Archives TeX / LaTeX Documents TIFF Images TSV Spreadsheets TTF Other TXT Documents WebP Images WOFF / WOFF2 Other WPD Documents XLS Spreadsheets XLSX Spreadsheets XML Documents ZIP Archives