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WiseBook 2
Digital books are the future
There are a large amount of books and records that only can be accessed
by visiting libraries, museums or record office. Unique documents such as
wills, land deeds, maps, cemetery records and more. Physical handling
deteriorates these originals over time. CSoft introduces its part of the
modern solution to simplify the existing processes and produce perfect
printer ready single and multi-page images files.
Book scanning
There are basically two ways to scan a book.
- using a conventional flat bed scanner;
- using a planetary camera.
Cost-wise there is no contest. A conventional flat bed scanner is much
cheaper than a planetary camera. However, the flat bed scanner has some
severe limitations.
 | To get a decent image, the book must be placed face down on the
glass. This means picking it up, turning the page and placing it down
again between each scan.
| Even applying pressure on the binding will make the page "curve
down" at the centre of the binding, distorting the words which
are near the bound edge and there will be some dark shadows down the
centre of the book where the light travels further and focus is
offset. |
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The perfect software to scan fragile originals on a flatbed scanner
must be equipped with all the tools needed to compensate distortions of
the curved book-fold and help eliminate the use of force to achieve
perfect results. WiseBook supplies this as well as all other important
tools to improve the capture time.
WiseBook 2 features
| Scanning two pages at the time regardless of scanner input device -
flatbed or planetary.
| Automatic content location and margin setup.
| Automatic page detection and splitting.
| Automatic distortion corrections including book-fold correction.
| Single and multi page raster file output and OCR-post-processing.
| Saving the setup of fine-tuned parameters of all used tools for
future re-use.
| Creation of batch job description to automate the whole book
scanning process.
| Single command book processing with the use of the previously saved
batch job description. |
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WiseBook at a glance
WiseBook combines productivity and performance right 'out-of-the-box'.
WiseBook can be configured to produce output at virtually any quality
level while offering the highest possible throughput. WiseBook works with
books, drawings, photos, maps or any kind of source documents.
The powerful image treatment capabilities built into WiseBook
automatically eliminate skewed images and remove unwanted fan and gutter.
WiseBook are compatible with most large and small format scanners. When
used with wide-format flatbed or planetary scanners WiseBook scans two
pages at once automatically splitting pages and correcting for book-fold
in milliseconds. WiseBook then automatically flattens the
"curved" part of the page where it dips into the centre binding.
The same process can also be applied to already scanned images.
WiseBook is for large repetitive jobs. It can help you with thick
multipage foliates scanning using advanced batch processing. The result is
perfect scanned pages cleaned and uniformly processed and stored in
multipage raster files. Optionally you can connect external OCR tools such
as the FineReader OCR Engine or local OCR engines with WiseBook to convert
scanned pages to plain text or to rich text format files.
WiseBook can be used for single page scan also. It eliminates tedious
repetitive tasks by automated page cropping, deskewing and resizing to
corporate standards. It can handle more than one page per scan. WiseBook
can separate, deskew crop and resize any number of pages or images from
one pass scans on a flat bed scanner. This increases productivity when
scanning large quantities of smaller "clips".
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