Image Stitching SoftwareDocument digitization is a complicated task. In a number of cases you wold come across pages which are big. They have to be scanned in pieces. You would need an image stitching software solutions to attach the pieces of scanned document and recreate the document in its original form . Generally these software solutions are used in cases where maps, charts and extensive blueprints are converted into digital format. Your first option is PTgui. This product is developed by new House Internet Services BV. The solution is available for both the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platform from Apple Inc. Main features of this product include support for normal lens, wide angle lens, fish eye lens and telephoto lens. You can create panoramas which ma be cylindrical as well as spherical. There is a special pro version of the solution which supports tone mapping as well as HDR. You can also use the pro version to import images in the OpenEXR and HDR source formats. There is a special viewpoint correction feature included in this tool as well. A blend priority parameter allows generation of spherical panorama. Alternatively you can consider Panorama Tools. This is a set of image processing libraries and tools available under the open source format. Where extensive stitching work is involved or in case you are looking to do unique stitching work, this is the tool to choose. You can get the source code of this tool and modify it so that your requirements are fulfilled. Panorama Tools is a command line utility by itself this means that you can use command scripting to do batch stitching work. In case you are not really abl to do all the command based work, you should consider 'hugin'. This is a a specially developed graphical user interface which makes it possible for anyone to use Panorama Tools. This means that the underlying engine of this tool is the one used by Panorama Tolls. Inf act it would not be incorrect to say that Panorama Tools is itself the engine that powers 'hugin'. It is another free and open source software so cost factors are nullified. The main features of 'hugin' are the ability to combine overlapping images and generate panoramas. It is possible to easily correct a way panorama, especially those created due to bad camera or scanner alignment. The solution can also do a number of photometric corrections as well as HDR stitching. All the softwares which have been presented to you can do extensive modifications to images as well as a create 3D panoramas. You can use images coming from a scan device attached to PC or from a camera and have brilliant results using any of the image stitching software solution regardless of the price you pay. |