Book Flipping Scanning

Summary

There is a growing demand for camera-based document analysis and recognition. Book digitization, a relatively new application of camera-based document capturing which images all of the pages in a book, has a rapidly expanding market globally and is attracting various types of potential users, including libraries, corporations, and general users of books, official documents, and notes. However, the conventional technology cannot meet the demands for ease-of-use and high-speed book digitization.

One emerging solution that meets these demands is Book Flipping Scanning. Book Flipping Scanning is a new style of book digitization to overcome the speed of book scanning. In this technique, all pages of a book are captured while a user continuously flips through the pages without stopping on each page. We propose multiple types of systems for various use cases.

Related Works

• BFS-Auto: High Speed & High Definition Book Scanner (2012-)
  • Real-time 3D Page Tracking and Book Status Recognition (2012-)
  • High-speed and High-definition Document Digitalization System based on Adaptive Scanning using Real-time 3D Sensing (2011-)
  • Automatic page turner machine for Book Flipping Scanning (2012-)
• Document Digitization and its Quality Improvement using a Multi-camera Array (2014-)
• Digitization of Deformed Documents using a High-speed Multi-camera Array (2011-)
• BFS-Solo: High Speed Book Digitization using Monocular Video (2013-)
  • Reconstruction of 3D Surface and Restoration of Flat document Image from Monocular Image Sequence (2011-)
• High-accuracy rectification technique of deformed document image using Tiled Rectangle Fragments (2014-)
  • Document Image Rectification using Advance Knowledge of 3D Deformation
  • Estimation of Non-rigid Surface Deformation using Developable Surface Model (2009-)
• Proof-of-concept prototype for Book Flipping Scanning (2009-)