How to translate DJVU to PDF?

With the development of electronic document management and an increase in the number of office users, the enterprise often faces the issue of standardizing the formats of electronic documents that are used in the institution. Especially difficult in this sense are various kinds of universities and colleges, in which a lot of scanned scientific literature is stored in the form of DJVU.

Of course, this format is specially created for these purposes, but its prevalence leaves much to be desired. In any case, it would be better to translate DJVU into PDF. This will allow you to use in everyday work much simpler and more common programs, which are already installed on the computers of most users.

What is this format?

In order to understand the need for such a conversion, it is worth learning a little about the format itself, which is a "stumbling block". As already mentioned above, it was created to digitize books and scientific aids. Its advantage is its impressive compactness.

But there is one caveat: all this applies only to those cases where the quality of the output document is not of particular importance. For example, you can easily digitize and use those methodologies in which there are many images and quality tables.

What is the reason for poor quality

That's only much more often you have to see digitized documents of terrible quality, in which it is almost impossible to make out anything. What is the reason for this? The thing is that there are no fonts in the DJVU format as part of the documents. In fact, such a document is a kind of "advanced" image.

So converting DJVU to PDF will allow you to somehow improve the readability of books that have been translated into digital format without much enthusiasm.

Than to convert?

Universal, simple and extremely compact program - DjView. It will allow you to convert even a voluminous document in just a few minutes. The disadvantage is that you can not choose the PDF specification. What kind of format is used for converting at any particular moment is unknown.

Virtual printer

This method will not only translate DJVU to PDF, but also save in the format you need, even a web page. How to convert in this case? First, you need to install the novaPDF program or something similar to it. To open the document directly, we will use the WinDjView utility.

After installing the virtual printer and setting it up, you can open DJVU books. PDF is obtained after you send them to "print". Unlike the previous case, you can configure all parameters of the output document. The conversion time depends entirely on the characteristics of your computer, but in about 10 minutes, about a hundred pages are converted.

FineReader

This application should be well known to domestic users, since for a long time it was the only option for high-quality document scanning. Today the program is already presented by the twelfth version, and its functionality has been radically expanded.

To convert DJVU to PDF, you must first start the application. The main window will appear, in which you should select the option "Image file in PDF". A dialog window of the special utility opens, where the program needs to specify the path to the file, which must be converted to a format more familiar to you.

But there is one problem. First, the application is paid. Secondly, its performance drops with the release of each new version. If your computer does not shine with performance, then the book DJVU On 200-300 pages can "hang" it tightly.

That is why it is better to use the utility included in the same FineReader on weak machines and under the condition of a relatively small document. It's about Screenshot Reader. The principle of its work is to recognize the text from the images of pages that the program does on its own. Resources it consumes a minimum, and the result is beautiful.

STDU Converter

This utility easily translates DJVU into PDF, without spending a lot of time on this process. Its advantage over competitors is not only in free-of-charge, but also in quite functional with them. So, you can translate into the desired format not the whole document, but only some of its fragment, marking the corresponding pages with flags.

The simplest version

The drawback of all the above described applications is the fact that they are quite complex, and so newcomers in them may not be so easy to understand. The solution from the current situation may be the Boxoft application. Its interface is as simple as possible. To convert, simply drag the document icon to the main application window, after which a similar file will appear in the same folder, but in PDF format.

When you should not convert?

We already said, what is the advantage of DJVU. In the case where the document has acceptable quality, and you are going to use it on a mobile device or through a cloud service, there are no reasons for the alteration.