[AccessD] Microsoft Office Document Image Writer

Some records management guys asked me to have a look at it recently. on 
overall images however it still does a lossy compression but with less 
artifacts.
but is good in compression for document text images. I was looking at it 
for police departments and use for legal evidence transfer as jpegs dont 
cut it.
ATT licensed this in 99 or 2000 to LizardTech but retained rights to 
release open source.LizardTech thought to market it to
document image companies like Kodak and Fujitsu as an internal 
integration package, they call it Document Express.
So it was never released as a public package. LizardTech was also more 
involved with development of MrSid
That where the open source guys came in, since I think ATT labs was none 
too pleased.

http://www.lizardtech.com/products/doc/
A lot of Universities are using for document archive publishing for web 
site speed and ability of user to cut and paste.
This might replace pdf on the web but pdf is still probably superior for 
printing to paper or film
further info here
http://www.vaagmaer.com/djview/

Here is a conversion server to convert pdf jpeg tiff pnmm to djvu


Stuart McLachlan wrote:

>On 19 Feb 2005 at 14:37, MartyConnelly wrote:
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>>Tiff's are fairly large and give a fathful reproduction for archiving 
>>document or graphics files with no artifacts. I am looking at one new 
>>format that is coming back out of hibernation called djvu. It comes out 
>>of ATT labs. It gives text reproduction at same reproduction of a tiff 
>>yet is a 1/5 the size of a jpeg.
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>Never heard of it before, so I went looking around and found 
>http://www.djvuzone.org
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>It looks almost too good to be true :-)
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>I'll be spending a few hours playing around with this one.  I have a couple 
>of potential uses for it already.
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>Thanks very much for the pointer.
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada