Posted by
Alan Hewat on
Jan 15, 2013; 7:38am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Straightening-and-cropping-images-tp5001414p5001422.html
You may already know that Adobe Acrobat (the expensive version, not
the free Reader) can scan documents, automatically straighten the
pages and interpret the text. It can also work with pre-scanned
images, but it is not a good idea to have different people doing the
different steps, since scanning parameters must be adjusted for
maximum legibility.
You should also check that Google Scholar has not already scanned the
book :-) They have a project to scan everything. Although the Google
book may only appear as a scanned copy on the WWW, you can download
the actual PDF including machine readable text using the "Google Book
Downloader". Google's text recognition is better than you can do from
the scanned image, even using Adobe Acrobat in my personal experience.
Alan
On 14 January 2013 22:48, Luba Polyak <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hello Imagej users,
>
> I am new to the community and to Java. I currently work in a rare books
> library on a project to digitize rare books and to make them available
> online.
>
> My job is to ''process'' the images -- basically to straighten the image by
> the inner seam of the book and then to add a crop around the borders of the
> visible page. Some of the books are shot open (such that both pages are
> visible) and some are shot recto/verso (such that only one page is visible
> per image). As you can imagine, this takes forever to do by hand and it
> seems that ImageJ could work as a way to automate the process.
>
> I was hoping you could recommend some documentation/reading on how to do
> this, plug ins you think may work well, or even a reference to someone who
> has done a similar project. Thanks for any help you could offer!
>
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