On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:51 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> it's mostly an image format (efficient storage of scanned documents) and 
> in that sense it's an alternative (jbig2 is another candidate)
> 
> Hans

That's what I was thinking too at first, that's it's mostly for scanned
documents. But since it is trying to be a replacement for PDF and it has
most of the same features, I think it's more than just that now.

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