OREANDA-NEWS. November 13, 2012. Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of image restoration technology that can generate PDFs from multi-page A3 documents fed as a batch into an A4 scanner.

Typically, scanning both sides of a double-sided A3 document with an A4 scanner involves folding each sheet in half and manually feeding it twice into the scanner. With Fujitsu Laboratories' new technology, by simply cutting A3 sheets in half and scanning them using a scanner's automatic feeder, the original A3 layout of the scanned images can be automatically detected and composite A3 images assembled. At the same time, image correction is applied so that the boundaries between left and right halves are inconspicuous. As a result, A3 documents can be converted to PDFs using an A4 scanner with less than 20% of the effort.

Details of this technology are being presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2012, beginning November 12 at the Tsukuba International Congress Center, and at the December Study Group of CVIM2012, beginning December 3 at Yokohama National University.