What is BIQE PROduction

And what does it do

Why content cropping?

About BIQE PROduction.

Do you recognise this?

Every time you scan a book without a book cradle, you put books under the thinnest section so that the left and right pages are almost the same height.

Even when using a book rocker, the left and right pages will inevitably have different heights due to the book’s thickness. This highlights the need for alternative methods when scanning without a book cradle.

If you use the “regular” crop method, you draw a rectangle around the left and right pages. However, there is not the same amount of text on each page; some pages are even blank.

The unwanted result:

Cut off text on some pages
All pages must be checked (time-consuming work)
Very much unnecessarily wasted time

The solution:

BIQE’s unique content cropping tool in our PROduction software

BIQE PROduction has a unique content-cropping tool

How does this preprocessing tool work?

Step 1

Select the number of pages or an entire book to be cropped (fig.1)
Choose in the top left corner ‘Spread Splitting’ (fig.2)

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Step 2

Select the option ‘content cautious’ (fig.3)

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Step 3

Set the ‘content sensitivity’ between 35 and 50 (fig.4)

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Step 4

Some pages need correction. Click on the filter (fig.5) and choose ‘Invalid.’
The warning triangle tells pages that need to be corrected (fig.6)

Figure 6: For 1 page, the left page’s crop frame (green rectangle) is inside the content frame (red rectangle). This is 100% the case on no other page.

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Step 5

We are going to correct this 1st page (fig.7)

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Step 6

The content frame has been corrected (fig.8)
The crop frames on the left (green) and right (blue) are outside the content frames (fig.9)

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Step 7

After correcting the content frame, select ‘recalculate’
All pages are recalculated again with the corrected settings
All crop frames are approved (fig.10)

Figure 10:
The green left crop frame and the blue right crop frame are similar, although on some pages, there is a photo or no text at all.

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Even if you have a book of 1000 pages, you don’t have to check a single page for the wrong crop! (See fig.11: the result)

Step 8

You can start editing the split and cropped images in a Batch process
You do this by making an Image profile with our 16 high-quality Image Filters (fig.12-15)

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Step 9

Compare the original image (fig.16) vs
The edited image with the BIQE filters (fig.17)

To get this amazing result, I used the Image Filters (fig.18) and saved it in a workflow (Profile) for future use on similar books.

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BIQE Content Cropping Tool

This is why our content cropping tool is unique:

Is very user-friendly and pleasant to work with
It will save you an enormous amount of time because you don’t have to check your images
It gives you 100% assurance that no text has been cut due to an incorrect crop