Scanning books

[John Honniball]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> One company (I can't remember who) makes a book scanner that
> has an option to correct for the curvature of the gutter of
> a book that isn't fully flattened.

HP had a research project to make a book scanner that looked like
a reading lamp.  You could set it up over an open book, and it would
correct for the curvature of the pages and the perspective effects
of the scanner's view point.  I think it was done digitally.  Don't
know if it got any further than a research paper.

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John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk