Feith Introduces DjVuer; Utilizes AT&T Technology To Produce Higher-Quality, Smaller Sized Web Images

FORT WASHINGTON, PA., Beginning today, graphic artists and content developers can use AT&T Labs' DjVu(tm) technology to create higher apparent resolution color images on the World Wide Web, up to 5-10 times smaller than any Web compression technology presently available.

Feith Systems & Software, Inc. announced it is making its DjVuer(tm) software available on a free trial basis, via their web site. DjVuer, the only commercially available Windows-based software of its kind, brings the power of AT&T Labs' DjVu technology to the desktop. DjVuer (pronounced day-ja-voo-er) was developed by Feith in cooperation with AT&T Labs, which pioneered the breakthrough DjVu technology that compresses images at ratios as high as 1000:1.

Users of Windows 95, 98 and NT can scan high-resolution color pages of books, magazines, catalogs, manuals, historical or ancient documents, and make them available on the Web. For high resolution color document images that contain both text and pictures, DjVu files are typically 40 to 80 KB, or five to 10 times smaller than JPEG files. For black-and-white pages, DjVu files are 10 to 20 times smaller than JPEG and five times smaller than GIF. DjVu technology turns a 25MB TIFF file into a 50KB image and routinely produces files five times smaller than PDF files taken from scanned documents.

People who download DjVuer will be able to create up to 50 images, in AT&T's DjVu format at no charge. While DjVuer is available only for Windows-based computers, free browser plug-ins available from AT&T (www.djvu.att.com) enable cross-platform viewing of the images created by DjVuer. In addition to Windows, plug-ins are available for computers running on a variety of platforms, including Macintosh OS8, Solaris, Linux and many varieties of UNIX.