Comparison of platform independent electronic document distribution techniques

With the proliferation of Internet, distribution of electronic documents has become easy. The most preferred distribution format of electronic documents is Portable Document Format (PDF). In this paper, along with the PDF document, lesser known Déjà Vu (DjVu), a document image compression standard, and the authors´ proposed compression technique are compared based on the performance in electronic display suitability, view-and-download facility and file size.