Can I turn a DjVu file into a PDF?

Yes, with the DjVu to PDF converter, which keeps the book's searchable text, bookmarks and links, and can convert just some pages.

Why can't I search this book?

It has no text layer: it is scanned pictures of the pages with no recognised text stored in the file. Search says so when that is the case. The pages still show; reading the text from the pictures (OCR) is something this page does not do.

The book is a folder of many small .djvu files. How do I open it?

That is an "indirect" DjVu book: an index file plus one file per page. This viewer opens the usual single-file kind. DjVuLibre's free djvmcvt tool joins an indirect book into one file, which then opens here.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. Pages are drawn as you reach them and let go of when you move on, so a long book does not fill the phone's memory.

Is my DjVu file uploaded?

No. The file is read by this browser tab, with djvu-rs compiled to WebAssembly; nothing is sent anywhere.

Stays on your computer How this works

Free online DjVu viewer: read and search .djvu books

Open a DjVu book or document on any computer or phone, search its text, follow its bookmarks and copy what you need. The file is opened in your browser and is not uploaded.

Drop a .djvu file here, or click to choose oneIt is opened by your browser, on this computer. Nothing is uploaded.

About the DjVu viewer

DjVu (.djvu, .djv) is a format for scanned pages. It keeps the sharp black-and-white text of a page apart from its soft background and pictures, which makes a scanned book a fraction of the size of the same book as a PDF, so archives, university libraries and book sites used it for millions of titles. Nothing on Windows, macOS, Android or iOS opens one by itself, and the free readers that do are long out of date.

This page reads the DjVu file directly and shows every page, drawn sharp at whatever size you zoom to. Most scanned books carry a hidden text layer, the text recognised from the scan, and the viewer lays it over each page so you can search the whole book and select and copy words as if it were a PDF. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.

What you can do

Read every page of a DjVu book or document, zoomed to fit or at any size
Search the whole book's text and jump to each page it is on, with the words marked
Select and copy words from a page, or copy a whole page's text
Open the book's bookmarks (its table of contents) and jump to a chapter
Go straight to a page by its number

How to open a .djvu file

Drop the .djvu file on the box above, or click the box and choose it.
Scroll through the pages, or type a page number. Bookmarks opens the table of contents when the book has one.
Type a word in Search the book to find it; each page it is on is listed, and the word is marked on the page.

Questions

Can I turn a DjVu file into a PDF?: Yes, with the DjVu to PDF converter, which keeps the book's searchable text, bookmarks and links, and can convert just some pages.
Why can't I search this book?: It has no text layer: it is scanned pictures of the pages with no recognised text stored in the file. Search says so when that is the case. The pages still show; reading the text from the pictures (OCR) is something this page does not do.
The book is a folder of many small .djvu files. How do I open it?: That is an "indirect" DjVu book: an index file plus one file per page. This viewer opens the usual single-file kind. DjVuLibre's free djvmcvt tool joins an indirect book into one file, which then opens here.
Does it work on a phone?: Yes. Pages are drawn as you reach them and let go of when you move on, so a long book does not fill the phone's memory.
Is my DjVu file uploaded?: No. The file is read by this browser tab, with djvu-rs compiled to WebAssembly; nothing is sent anywhere.

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