# djvu-rs
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Pure-Rust DjVu codec — decode and encode DjVu documents. MIT licensed, no GPL dependencies. Written from the DjVu v3 public specification.
## Features
- **IFF container parser** — zero-copy, borrowing slices from input
- **JB2 bilevel image decoder** — adaptive arithmetic coding (ZP coder) with symbol dictionary
- **JB2 bilevel image encoder** — encode any `Bitmap` into a valid `Sjbz` chunk payload
- **IW44 wavelet image decoder** — planar YCbCr storage, multiple refinement chunks
- **IW44 wavelet image encoder** — encode color (`Pixmap`) or grayscale (`GrayPixmap`) into `BG44`/`FG44` chunk payloads
- **G4/MMR bilevel image decoder** — ITU-T T.6 Group 4 fax decoder (`Smmr` chunks)
- **BZZ decompressor** — ZP arithmetic coding + MTF + BWT (DIRM, NAVM, ANTz chunks)
- **Text layer extraction** — TXTz/TXTa chunk parsing with zone hierarchy (page/column/region/paragraph/line/word/character)
- **Annotation parsing** — ANTz/ANTa chunk parsing (hyperlinks, map areas, background color)
- **Annotation encoding** — serialize `Annotation` + `MapArea` slices into ANTa or ANTz chunk payloads
- **Bookmarks** — NAVM table-of-contents parsing
- **Bookmark encoding** — serialize `DjVuBookmark` trees into NAVM chunk payloads
- **Multi-page documents** — DJVM bundle format with DIRM directory chunk; indirect DJVM creation and loading from directory
- **Page rendering** — composite foreground + background into RGBA output
- **PDF export** — selectable text, lossless IW44/JB2 embedding, bookmarks, hyperlinks
- **TIFF export** — multi-page color and bilevel modes (feature flag `tiff`)
- **hOCR / ALTO XML export** — text layer as hOCR or ALTO XML for OCR toolchains and archives
- **Serde support** — `Serialize`/`Deserialize` on all public data types (feature flag `serde`)
- **EPUB 3 export** — page images + invisible text overlay + bookmarks as navigation (feature flag `epub`)
- **WebAssembly (WASM)** — `wasm-bindgen` bindings for use in browsers and Node.js (feature flag `wasm`)
- **image-rs integration** — `image::ImageDecoder` impl for use with the `image` crate (feature flag `image`)
- **Async render and lazy loading** — async render wrappers plus true per-page lazy loading over `AsyncRead + AsyncSeek` (feature flag `async`)
- **Workspace codec crates** — standalone `djvu-iff`, `djvu-bzz`, `djvu-bitmap`, `djvu-jb2`, `djvu-pixmap`, `djvu-iw44`, and `djvu-zp` crates for focused consumers
- **Fuzzing integration** — libFuzzer targets and in-tree OSS-Fuzz project files
- `no_std` compatible — IFF/BZZ/JB2/IW44/ZP codec modules work with `alloc` only
## Quick start
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, djvu_render::{render_pixmap, RenderOptions}};
let data = std::fs::read("file.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
println!("{} pages", doc.page_count());
let page = doc.page(0)?;
println!("{}×{} @ {} dpi", page.width(), page.height(), page.dpi());
let target_dpi = 150u32;
let opts = RenderOptions {
width: ((page.width() as u32 * target_dpi) / page.dpi() as u32).max(1),
height: ((page.height() as u32 * target_dpi) / page.dpi() as u32).max(1),
..Default::default()
};
let pixmap = render_pixmap(page, &opts)?;
// pixmap.data — RGBA bytes (width × height × 4), row-major
```
## Text extraction
```rust
use djvu_rs::DjVuDocument;
let data = std::fs::read("scanned.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let page = doc.page(0)?;
if let Some(text) = page.text()? {
println!("{text}");
}
```
## PDF export
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, pdf::djvu_to_pdf};
let data = std::fs::read("book.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let pdf_bytes = djvu_to_pdf(&doc)?;
std::fs::write("book.pdf", pdf_bytes)?;
```
## TIFF export
Requires the `tiff` feature flag: `djvu-rs = { version = "…", features = ["tiff"] }`.
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, tiff_export::{djvu_to_tiff, TiffOptions}};
let data = std::fs::read("scan.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let tiff_bytes = djvu_to_tiff(&doc, &TiffOptions::default())?;
std::fs::write("scan.tiff", tiff_bytes)?;
```
## Async render
Requires the `async` feature flag: `djvu-rs = { version = "…", features = ["async"] }`.
The render entry points are synchronous and CPU-bound; run them on the
blocking thread pool with `tokio::task::spawn_blocking` so they stay off the
async runtime. The render error type stays the typed `RenderError` — there is
no wrapper enum.
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, djvu_render::{self, RenderOptions}};
let data = std::fs::read("file.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let page = doc.page(0)?.clone();
let target_dpi = 150u32;
let opts = RenderOptions {
width: ((page.width() as u32 * target_dpi) / page.dpi() as u32).max(1),
height: ((page.height() as u32 * target_dpi) / page.dpi() as u32).max(1),
..Default::default()
};
let pixmap = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
djvu_render::render_pixmap(&page, &opts)
})
.await??; // outer `?`: join error (panic); inner `?`: RenderError
```
For progressive (per-BG44-chunk) rendering, `djvu_async::render_progressive_stream`
yields a `Stream` of frames, each produced on the blocking pool.
## Lazy async loading
Requires the `async` feature flag. The lazy loader keeps a seekable async
reader and fetches page/component byte ranges only when `page_async(i)` is
called. Parsed pages are cached as `Arc<DjVuPage>`.
```rust
use djvu_rs::djvu_async::from_async_reader_lazy;
let file = tokio::fs::File::open("book.djvu").await?;
let doc = from_async_reader_lazy(file).await?;
println!("{} pages", doc.page_count());
let page = doc.page_async(0).await?;
println!("first page: {}×{}", page.width(), page.height());
```
Supported shapes: single-page `FORM:DJVU` and bundled `FORM:DJVM`, including
shared `DJVI` dictionaries referenced via `INCL`. For browser-local `!Send`
readers on `wasm32`, use `from_async_reader_lazy_local`.
See [`examples/async_lazy_first_page.rs`](examples/async_lazy_first_page.rs)
for a native first-page latency probe and
[`examples/wasm/range_lazy.md`](examples/wasm/range_lazy.md) for the HTTP
`Range: bytes=start-end` integration shape.
## Low-level IFF access
```rust
use djvu_rs::iff::parse_form;
let data = std::fs::read("file.djvu")?;
let form = parse_form(&data)?;
println!("FORM type: {:?}", std::str::from_utf8(&form.form_type));
for chunk in &form.chunks {
println!(" chunk {:?} ({} bytes)", std::str::from_utf8(&chunk.id), chunk.data.len());
}
```
## Encoding
### JB2 bilevel image encoder
```rust
use djvu_rs::{bitmap::Bitmap, jb2_encode::encode_jb2};
let mut bm = Bitmap::new(800, 1000);
// ... fill bitmap pixels ...
let sjbz_payload = encode_jb2(&bm);
// Wrap in a Sjbz IFF chunk and embed in a DjVu FORM:DJVU.
```
### IW44 wavelet encoder
```rust
use djvu_rs::{Pixmap, iw44_encode::{encode_iw44_color, Iw44EncodeOptions}};
let pixmap: Pixmap = /* ... your RGBA/YCbCr image ... */;
let chunks: Vec<Vec<u8>> = encode_iw44_color(&pixmap, &Iw44EncodeOptions::default());
// Each Vec<u8> is a BG44 chunk payload; wrap each in a BG44 IFF tag.
```
Grayscale:
```rust
use djvu_rs::{GrayPixmap, iw44_encode::{encode_iw44_gray, Iw44EncodeOptions}};
let gray: GrayPixmap = /* ... */;
let chunks: Vec<Vec<u8>> = encode_iw44_gray(&gray, &Iw44EncodeOptions::default());
```
`Iw44EncodeOptions` fields (all have sensible defaults):
| `slices_per_chunk` | 10 | Slices packed into each BG44/FG44 chunk |
| `total_slices` | 100 | Total refinement slices to encode |
| `chroma_delay` | 0 | Y slices before Cb/Cr encoding begins |
| `chroma_half` | true | Encode chroma at half resolution |
### Bookmark encoder
```rust
use djvu_rs::{djvu_document::DjVuBookmark, navm_encode::encode_navm};
let bookmarks = vec![
DjVuBookmark { title: "Chapter 1".into(), url: "#page=1".into(), children: vec![] },
];
let navm_payload = encode_navm(&bookmarks);
```
### Annotation encoder
```rust
use djvu_rs::annotation::{Annotation, MapArea, encode_annotations, encode_annotations_bzz};
let ann = Annotation::default();
let areas: Vec<MapArea> = vec![/* ... */];
let anta_payload = encode_annotations(&ann, &areas); // uncompressed ANTa
let antz_payload = encode_annotations_bzz(&ann, &areas); // BZZ-compressed ANTz
```
## Indirect multi-page documents
Create an indirect DJVM index file that references per-page `.djvu` files:
```rust
use djvu_rs::djvm::create_indirect;
let index = create_indirect(&["page001.djvu", "page002.djvu", "page003.djvu"])?;
std::fs::write("book.djvu", index)?;
// Distribute book.djvu alongside the individual page files.
```
Load an indirect document by resolving component files from a directory:
```rust
use djvu_rs::DjVuDocument;
let index = std::fs::read("book.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse_from_dir(&index, "/path/to/pages")?;
println!("{} pages", doc.page_count());
```
Mutation of indirect DJVM documents is not supported by `DjVuDocumentMut` yet.
The current strategy decision is to add a resolver-backed rebundling path first;
see [`docs/indirect-djvm-mutation.md`](docs/indirect-djvm-mutation.md).
## CLI
The `djvu` binary is enabled by the `cli` feature.
```sh
# Install
cargo install djvu-rs --features cli
# Document info
djvu info file.djvu
# Render page 1 to PNG at 200 DPI
djvu render file.djvu --dpi 200 --output page1.png
# Render all pages to a PDF
djvu render file.djvu --all --format pdf --output out.pdf
# Export all pages to CBZ
djvu render file.djvu --all --format cbz --output out.cbz
# Extract text from page 2
djvu text file.djvu --page 2
# Extract text from all pages
djvu text file.djvu --all
# Encode a PNG image into a single-page DjVu (bilevel JB2, lossless)
djvu encode scan.png --output scan.djvu --dpi 300
# Encode a PNG image into a layered lossy DjVu (JB2 mask + IW44 background + FGbz foreground color)
djvu encode scan.png --quality quality --output scan.djvu --dpi 300
# Use the conservative archival color profile for a single PNG
djvu encode scan.png --quality archival --output scan.djvu --dpi 300
# Opt into adaptive mask segmentation for uneven scans
djvu encode scan.png --quality quality --binarization sauvola --bg-inpaint --output scan.djvu
# Encode a directory of PNGs into a bundled DJVM with shared Djbz
djvu encode pages/ --output book.djvu --shared-dict-pages 2
```
For single PNG input, `--quality lossless` luminance-thresholds the image into a
JB2 mask and writes `INFO + Sjbz`; `--quality quality` uses the layered encoder
(`INFO + Sjbz + BG44...` plus `FGbz` when colored foreground is detected) for
color input. `--quality archival` uses the same layered shape with a denser
background sample grid. Directory input supports all three profiles: `lossless`
keeps the shared-Djbz multi-page JB2 path, while `quality` / `archival` bundle
independently encoded layered pages so each page keeps its own `Sjbz`, `BG44`,
and optional `FGbz` chunks. The `--shared-dict-pages` knob only affects the
lossless directory path.
Layered `quality` / `archival` encodes default to fixed BT.601 thresholding.
`--binarization sauvola` opts into adaptive local thresholding for mixed or
uneven lighting; tune it with `--sauvola-window` and `--sauvola-k`.
`--bg-inpaint` fills fully masked background blocks from neighbouring unmasked
pixels, which can reduce dark boxes under heavy text strokes. These knobs are
opt-in, only affect layered profiles, and do not change lossless JB2 defaults.
Library callers can use the same controls with `PageEncoder::with_segment_options`.
## hOCR and ALTO XML export
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, text_serialize::{to_hocr, to_alto, HocrOptions, AltoOptions}};
let data = std::fs::read("scanned.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
// hOCR — compatible with Tesseract, ABBYY, and most OCR toolchains
let hocr = to_hocr(&doc, &HocrOptions::default())?;
std::fs::write("output.hocr", hocr)?;
// ALTO XML — used by libraries and archives (DFG, Europeana, etc.)
let alto = to_alto(&doc, &AltoOptions::default())?;
std::fs::write("output.xml", alto)?;
```
## OCR recognition backends
The supported OCR recognition path is the `ocr-tesseract` feature, which uses a
system Tesseract installation and tessdata files:
```sh
cargo build --features cli,ocr-tesseract
# Requires Tesseract + the requested language data, e.g. eng.traineddata.
# Text-layer injection is still pending; the CLI reports recognized text chunks
# and writes a copy of the input file for now.
djvu ocr scanned.djvu --backend tesseract --lang eng --output copy.djvu
```
`ocr-onnx` is an experimental library-level CTC helper; the CLI does not treat it
as a stable backend because no specific model family, preprocessing contract, or
fixture is guaranteed yet. `ocr-neural` is a placeholder only: `CandleBackend` now
returns a clear unsupported-backend error instead of constructing a backend that
always fails at recognition time. The compatibility feature name
`ocr-neural-candle` is a no-op and no longer pulls Candle/tokenizers into
`--all-features` builds.
## Serde support
Requires the `serde` feature flag: `djvu-rs = { version = "…", features = ["serde"] }`.
All public data types (`DjVuBookmark`, `TextZone`, `MapArea`, `PageInfo`, etc.) implement
`Serialize` and `Deserialize`.
```rust
use djvu_rs::DjVuDocument;
let data = std::fs::read("book.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let json = serde_json::to_string_pretty(doc.bookmarks())?;
println!("{json}");
```
## image-rs integration
Requires the `image` feature flag: `djvu-rs = { version = "…", features = ["image"] }`.
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, image_compat::DjVuDecoder};
use image::DynamicImage;
let data = std::fs::read("file.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let page = doc.page(0)?;
let decoder = DjVuDecoder::new(page)?.with_size(1200, 1600);
let img = DynamicImage::from_decoder(decoder)?;
img.save("page.png")?;
```
## EPUB export
Requires the `epub` feature flag: `djvu-rs = { version = "…", features = ["epub"] }`.
```rust
use djvu_rs::{DjVuDocument, epub::{djvu_to_epub, EpubOptions}};
let data = std::fs::read("book.djvu")?;
let doc = DjVuDocument::parse(&data)?;
let epub_bytes = djvu_to_epub(&doc, &EpubOptions::default())?;
std::fs::write("book.epub", epub_bytes)?;
```
CLI:
```sh
djvu render book.djvu --format epub --output book.epub
```
## WebAssembly
Build with [wasm-pack](https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-pack/):
```sh
wasm-pack build --target bundler --features wasm
```
Then use in JavaScript/TypeScript:
```js
import init, { WasmDocument } from './pkg/djvu_rs.js';
await init();
const doc = WasmDocument.from_bytes(new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer));
console.log(doc.page_count());
const page = doc.page(0);
const pixels = page.render(150); // Uint8ClampedArray, RGBA
const img = new ImageData(pixels, page.width_at(150), page.height_at(150));
ctx.putImageData(img, 0, 0);
```
See [`examples/wasm/`](examples/wasm/) for a complete drag-and-drop demo.
The generated npm package follows the Rust crate version; there is no separate
WASM release train. The local `pkg/` directory is ignored wasm-pack output, so
regenerate it from the checked-in `Cargo.toml` before publishing instead of
editing generated `pkg/package.json` by hand.
### WASM scalar vs simd128 benchmark
The local Node.js harness builds two `wasm-pack --target nodejs` bundles and
compares scalar wasm32 against `RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+simd128"`:
```sh
ITERATIONS=50 WARMUP=10 DPI=150 ./scripts/bench_wasm_simd128.sh
```
The script uses `tests/fixtures/boy.djvu` by default and reports parse,
full-render, cached-render, and first progressive-render timings. CI
syntax-checks the harness and build-checks both wasm targets, but does not run
timing comparisons because hosted runner variance is too high for stable
regression gates.
## Feature flags
| `std` | enabled | `DjVuDocument`, file I/O, rendering, PDF export |
| `cli` | disabled | Build the `djvu` command-line binary |
| `tiff` | disabled | TIFF export via the `tiff` crate |
| `async` | disabled | Async render API and lazy `AsyncRead + AsyncSeek` document loading |
| `parallel` | disabled | Parallel multi-page render via `rayon` (`render_pages_parallel`) |
| `jpeg` | disabled | Standalone JPEG decode without full `std` (JPEG is included in `std` by default) |
| `mmap` | disabled | Memory-mapped file I/O via `memmap2` (`DjVuDocument::from_mmap`) |
| `serde` | disabled | `Serialize` + `Deserialize` for all public data types |
| `image` | disabled | `image::ImageDecoder` impl via `DjVuDecoder` — integrates with the `image` crate |
| `epub` | disabled | EPUB 3 export via `djvu_to_epub` — page images, text overlay, bookmarks as nav |
| `wasm` | disabled | WebAssembly bindings via `wasm-bindgen` (`WasmDocument`, `WasmPage`) |
Without `std`, the crate provides IFF parsing, BZZ decompression, JB2/IW44 decoding,
text/annotation parsing — all codec primitives that work on byte slices.
## Performance
See [BENCHMARKS_RESULTS.md](BENCHMARKS_RESULTS.md) for Criterion numbers,
methodology, and a DjVuLibre comparison (run via
[`scripts/bench_djvulibre.sh`](scripts/bench_djvulibre.sh) +
[`scripts/djvulibre_compare.py`](scripts/djvulibre_compare.py)).
Historical multi-platform results are in [BENCHMARKS.md](BENCHMARKS.md).
Recent targeted experiments are recorded in
[PERF_EXPERIMENTS.md](PERF_EXPERIMENTS.md), including:
- **#233 lazy async loading:** a 100 MiB padded 520-page DJVM reached first
pixel in **491.469 ms** while reading only **28,578 bytes** at simulated
12.5 MiB/s throughput.
- **#189 x86-64-v3 AVX2 validation:** existing AVX2 decode paths showed
`iw44_decode_corpus_color` **-18.88%** and `iw44_decode_first_chunk`
**-4.85%** on GitHub-hosted x86_64, with one sub4 partial-decode regression
recorded for follow-up.
- **#258 shared-Djbz clustering:** Hamming shared clustering was rejected as
default; byte-exact shared-Djbz remains the measured safe path.
## Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV)
Rust **1.88** (edition 2024 — let-chains stabilized in 1.88)
## Roadmap
See [GitHub milestones](https://github.com/matyushkin/djvu-rs/milestones) for the full roadmap and progress tracking.
## License
MIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
## Specification
Written from the public DjVu v3 specification:
- https://www.sndjvu.org/spec.html
- https://djvu.sourceforge.net/spec/DjVu3Spec.djvu (the spec is itself a DjVu file)
No code derived from GPL-licensed DjVuLibre or any other GPL source.
All algorithms are independent implementations from the spec.