This page is an index to interesting scientific and research works concerning book scanning and including OCR and imaging technology.

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Book Scanning

• Nakajima, 2007, Video Mosaicing for Document Imaging
• Ulges, 2004, Document capture using stereo vision

Page Flattening (also known as Dewarping)

Book-specific

• Stamatopoulos, 2008, A Two-Step Dewarping of Camera Document Images
• Shafait, 2007, Document image dewarping contest
• Zhang, 2007, An improved physically-based method for geometric restoration of distorted document images
• Zhang, 2007, Warped Document Image Restoration Using Shape-from-Shading and Physically-Based Modeling
• Ulges, 2005, Document image dewarping using robust estimation of curled text lines
• Liang, 2005, Flattening Curved Documents in Images
• Cao, 2003, Rectifying the Bound Document Image Captured by the Camera: A Model Based Approach

Theory

• Wang, 2008, Flattenable Mesh Surface Fitting on Boundary Curves
• Lin, 2006, Fast Flattening Algorithm for Non-developable 3D Surfaces
• Chen, 1999, On Surface Approximation using Developable Surfaces

Optical Character Recognition

Tesseract and OCRopus

• Smith, 2009, Adapting the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine for Multilingual OCR
• Breuel, 2008, The OCRopus Open Source OCR System
• Smith, 2007, An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine

Image Processing

• Kass, 2010, Smoothed Local Histogram Filters
• Kass, 1988, Snakes: Active Contour Models

Vision

• Young, 2001, The Gaussian Derivative model for spatial-temporal vision: I. Cortical Model
• Young, 2001, The Gaussian Derivative model for spatial-temporal vision: II. Cortical Data

Pure Algorithms

• Wang, 2006, Fitting B-spline Curves to Point Clouds by Curvature-Based Squared Distance Minimization
• Pottmann, 2003, A concept for parametric surface fitting which avoids the parametrization problem
• Pottmann, 2001, Approximation with Active B-spline Curves and Surfaces