Quality criteria and testing procedures for book scanners

Beside of speed and pricing, scan quality is a main aspect if you choose a suitable book scanner for a book scanning project. To achieve a comparability of different book scanners it is advisable to use standardized test figures to verify the quality of scanning results.
To evaluate the image quality of book scanners the following main quality criteria should be checked:

• Resolution
• Linearity
• Reproduction of color and grayscale

These issues can be proved with different test patterns. To get more detailed information concerning the various testing procedures please klick on the relevant keyword on the left hand.