Convert DJVU to PPM

The DjVu file extension, developed by AT&T Labs in 1996, stands for "Digital Journal Viewer". It is designed to store scanned documents and combine text, line drawings, and images with high compression efficiency. DjVu files are widely used for digitizing books, magazines, and historical documents due to their ability to produce smaller file sizes compared to PDF, JPEG, and TIFF formats. This format employs advanced technologies like image layer separation, progressive loading, and arithmetic coding, making it ideal for web distribution and archival purposes.

The Portable Pixmap (PPM) file extension, an image format within the Netpbm family, stores simple, uncompressed images. Introduced in the late 1980s, PPM supports RGB color and grayscale images, making it suitable for basic image processing and conversion tasks. Its plain text encoding simplifies debugging and data manipulation, although its lack of compression results in larger file sizes compared to modern formats. As such, PPM finds limited use in contemporary applications, mainly in educational and experimental settings where ease of implementation and readability are prioritized.