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LizardTech publishes partial price list for DjVu
products
a report by PlanetDjVu, May 11,
2003 LizardTech
now has an online
ordering page for Document Express Products and Cartridges,
including prices. Not all Document Express Products are listed, however.
Missing are Document Express Enterprise Edition and the PDF-to-DjVu
Converter. With the prices that ARE listed, however, we can update the
pricing information that we published in February, in an article titled:
LizardTech
DjVu Products and Prices from GSA. Here is a
screenshot showing the published prices at the LizardTech
website: The price
for Document Express Desktop Edition is listed as $249. Page charges do
not apply in thiss edition or version of Document Express. Further
explanation is provided by LizardTech on this page: http://www.lizardtech.com/solutions/document/trial/de4info.php/ Since our
report in February, prices have dropped for Document Express Professional
Edition and for the 10,000, 5,000 and 2,500 page cartridges. Prices remain
the same for page cartridges that are 25,000 pages and
higher. Where the
entry price for Document Express Professional Edition before was $999 for
10,000 pages, it is now $349 for 2,500 pages. With this
published information from LizardTech, it is now possible to take another
look at the per-page charges:
 These page
charges apply whether the DjVu files produced are bitonal, photo or
segmented.
These page
charges do not apply to OCR. By way of
comparison, the page charges from Adobe Systems for Acrobat Capture
Personal Edition apply ONLY to OCR, and not to the encoding of PDF files,
for which there is no page charge, as illustrated:
The price
of Acrobat Capture Personal Edition is $420, and it ships with 20,000
pages.
The price
of Acrobat Capture with unlimited OCR pages is $4,000. From the
above information, it is reasonable to generalize that DjVu creation from
LizardTech is 5 to 10 times higher in cost than PDF from
Adobe. Page
Cartridges from LizardTech are not required to make DjVu files - there are
some other free options, which include DjVu Solo 3.1, the Any2DjVu
Conversion Server, and the DjVuLibre binaries, which have recently been
ported to Windows. The price
of DjVu encoding in the enterprise JRAPublish application has not been
set, because we are unable to get licensing from LizardTech for either the
DjVu Encode SDK or the DjVu Reference Library, both of which are compiled
into the application, and the application is therefore not released for
DjVu encoding. For the
other DjVu products from LizardTech for which prices are still not
published, we don't know if prices have changed since our February
report. |
