Digitisation with DjVu in Hungarian

HAJNAL-WARD Judit

Könyvtári Figyelő (Library Review) vol. 16. (52.) 2006. no. 1. pp. 129-137.

The preservation of documents in electronic form is a solution widely applied by libraries and archives. DjVu is a new image compression technology that allows the digitisation and display of very high resolution images of scanned colour pages of documents. The author presents the most important features of the new technology, and gives examples of its application in library environment through the digitisation work carried out at the Library of the American-Hungarian Foundation.