<title>High-description image acquisition for digital archiving of rare books</title>

Application of image processing technology to digital archiving and study of rare books

“…Therefore, when we want to get a page image of a rare book, we can not open it widely enough to obtain an image of flat page surface because of the risk to break the book. Then we proposed an image adjustment method in order to get rectangular just-front view of a page [7]. By this adjustment, image of rounded page surface taken by high definition digital camera is geometrically compensated to make a rectangular page view just like a view of detached leaf.…”