Alyvero glossary

PDF and image file terms

Plain-language definitions for the file formats and processing terms used throughout Alyvero.

PDF

Portable Document Format, a document format designed to preserve page layout across devices and software.

The modern Microsoft Word document format used for editable word-processing files.

A widely used image format that commonly provides smaller files through lossy compression.

An image format that supports lossless compression and transparency.

An image container commonly produced by Apple devices and based on the HEIF image standard.

Reducing file size by removing redundancy or changing how data is represented.

Changing an image's pixel dimensions while keeping the image content.

Optical character recognition, which attempts to turn text visible in scanned images into machine-readable text.

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