Cobb County

With a population of 500,000, Cobb County, Ga., of suburban Atlanta, is one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. With such high growth rates, Cobb County is thinking ahead and utilizing the latest imaging technology to dramatically cut staff costs and better serve the developing community. Using advanced software named DjVu from Seattle-based LizardTech Inc., Cobb County is now able to place both historic and present public court records online, as legal tender, thus saving its staff and customers enormous amounts of time and money.

This is the first time in Georgia history that the public has free remote access to copies of Superior Court Records. With integration assistance from The Main Line Corporation, Cobb County is dramatically reducing document storage requirements and is utilizing DjVu software to place scanned public records on the Internet. Just some of these documents include court records, legal deeds, maps, architectural plans and other publicly accessible and legally stamped information.

The DjVu Solution

Cobb County's solution is LizardTech's DjVu imaging software. DjVu is scan-to-Web technology that reduces the file size of high-resolution scanned documents up to 1500:1. Public organizations like Cobb County and private corporations alike are discovering with DjVu they now can transfer Internet-ready documents at file sizes small enough for fast viewing, yet with incredible detail. For example, DjVu technology reduced Cobb County's large scanned property maps from over 300MB originally to around 200 to 400KB-a size that can be easily viewed and printed from the Cobb County Web site.

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