Top 5 DJVU Readers for Linux
Updated: March 08, 2026 | Editor: Maria Lin
DJVU Readers for Linux allow to open and read DJVU books on Linux computers
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KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported file formats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.
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Okular is a universal book viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4. This means Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.
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DjView4 is a new portable DjVu viewer and browser plugin. Entirely based on the public djvulibre api. Entirely written in portable Qt4. Works with Qt/X11, Qt/Mac, and Qt/Windows. Continuous scrolling of pages. Side-by-side display of pages. Ability to specify a url to the djview command. All plugin and cgi options available from the command line.
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zathura is a highly customizable and functional ereader. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. zathura now uses a plugin based system for supported document types which makes it possible for you to choose which file formats you want your version of zathura to support. This also makes it possible to use different backends for the same document type: For instance we provide a plugin for PDF documents using either the poppler or the mupdf library.
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DjVuLibre is an open source (GPL'ed) implementation of DjVu, including viewers, browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities. DjVuLibre includes a standalone viewer, a browser plug-in (for Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Netscape, Galeon, and Opera), and command line tools (decoders, encoders, utilities). DjVuLibre works under Unix with X11.
