Week 14: Editing Digitized Book

After capturing the images for the book last week, this week, I am editing the pages so that they are legible and properly aligned. In order to do this, I have to use BookDrive Editor which allows me to rearrange, crop, and skew images. This is an important step in the digitizing process. After the pictures are taken, most pictures have to be rotated so that they are facing the proper direction. Then the next step is to skew the images. Since some of the images captured are slightly off or crooked, it is important to de-skew them so that the pages for the digitized book are as straight as possible. This also helps when trying to create a uniform size for the pages, which is done through cropping. While it can be done for the overall collection, it is better to do each individual page since not all the pages are captured exactly the same. Once all these pages are edited, the software will combine the pages into a pdf and this then can be put online and shared. That is the process of digitizing a book.