Code4Lib Journal (Jul 2011)

Diva.js: A Continuous Document Viewing Interface

  • Andrew Hankinson,
  • Wendy Liu,
  • Laurent Pugin,
  • Ichiro Fujinaga

Journal volume & issue
no. 14

Abstract

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Diva.js is a multi-page browser-based document viewer designed to present high-resolution digitized document images as a continuous, scrollable item. This article examines the current state of the art in online document display technologies, and presents a list of functional requirements the authors used to guide the creation of this new online document viewer. The authors then discuss the image processing infrastructure necessary for deploying the Diva.js viewer, and present a brief discussion of how the viewer is currently deployed in their organization.