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New DjVu Products from Image Reality in
Japan A report by PlanetDjVu, January 17,
2003 Introduction
 Image Reality in Japan is a strategic partner of
LizardTech, offering both DjVu products from LizardTech and DjVu products
developed in-house with the Japanese market in mind.
You can visit the Image Reality website at: http://www.imagereality.co.jp.
Be forewarned that this is site is in Japanese - an English translation is
not available.
Unlike LizardTech, Image Reality publishes the
upgrade paths for DjVu products and the prices for these products, which
can be viewed at: http://www.imagereality.co.jp/upgrade/
The upgrade for DjVu Solo 3.1 is Document Express
Professional Edition, which is available for 50,000 Yen, or about $428,
and this license allows you to produce 10,000 DjVu pages.
Image Reality earlier produced three applications
called DjVu IR Enterprise 1.0, DjVu IR Enterprise Basic 1.0, and DjVu IR
Watch Folder 1.1, and these are now combined in two products called IR
Enterprise Server Edition 2.0 and IR Enterprise 2.0.
IR Enterprise 2.0 is a command-line application like
LizardTech's Document Express Enterprise Edition. A license is available
for 90,000 Yen, or about $763, and this license allows you to produce
1,000 DjVu pages.
IR Enterprise Server Edition 2.0 adds the watched
folder capabilities of the earlier DjVu IR Watch Folder 1.1 product to the
IR Enterprise 2.0 features. A license is available for 150,000 Yen, or
about $1,271, and this license allows you to produce 1,000 DjVu
pages.
IR-OCX
Image Reality has released a product called IR-OCX.
This is a Windows OCX control that condenses all the DjVu encoding
functions into a control that can be integrated into an existing image
processing workflow. It can be combined with a third-party OCR
engine.
IR-OCX Components
IR-OCX has two components called DjVu Converter and
DjVu Metadata Editor.
DjVu Converter is the ActiveX component which
performs DjVu file encoding.
DjVu Metadata Editor is the ActiveX component which
will extract the OCRed full-text of a document and make it available for
text cleanup. The corrected text then can be written back to the
DjVu file.
IR-OCX is available only in Japan, we believe, and
there is no mention that we can see of page count restrictions. Prices
appear not to be published.
Concluding Remarks
Page Cartridge Pricing (for additional DjVu pages)
appears not to be published. This information is taken directly from
the Image Reality website, and partly from Japanese translation that we
performed. We therefore apologise if any of this information is
innacurate. We asked Image Realty for information in support of this
article, but they did not reply.
The OCX control and the text cleanup editor are great
features for DjVu. We only wish such tools were available outside of
Japan. Perhaps someday they will.
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