Software to read .djvu files?

Question

I have some files with .djvu extension. What this extension means? What software is need it to open these kind of files?

Answer 1

See Wikipedia:

DjVu (pronounced like déjà vu) is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs. It uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy compression for bitonal (monochrome) images. This allows for high-quality, readable images to be stored in a minimum of space, so that they can be made available on the web.

Here are various viewers.

Answer 2

Under Windows I've found WinDjVu the best of the lot. Simple, portable, only one file (always nice).

But, just the other day, I've stumbled onto STDU Viewer - testing it out now (these last few days). Very nice, reads the lot - pdf, djvu ... you name it.

Answer 3

you can open DJVU documents in various web browsers with the ExpressView Browser Plug-in

works with Netscape®, Internet Explorer and Safari Web browsers.

available for Windows and Mac OS X, free for personal use.

Answer 4

here is the download link for WinDjView-subpix. It is similar to WinDjView but is supposed to have some higher rendering quality.

Answer 5

Recently DjVu Reader for Mac was released. Maybe it's be useful a bit for you.

Answer 6

I like Sumatra.