Decapod Development Planning

This document outlines the design and development priority for Decapod

Dashboard

• resume book
• load book
• delete book
• batch export
• batch delete
• enter basic metadata

Camera Setup Wizard

• Camera zoom control
• Camera connection dialog
• Field of view dialog
• Calibration dialog

Thumbnails

• drag and drop
• keyboard move thumbnail
• change page order by editing page number
• jump to thumbnail by typing page number

Capture Interface

• capture spread
• delete spread
• drag and drop spread
• cut and paste spread
• insert spread
• post-capture processing
• normalization correction
• automatic save
• resizeable thumbnail pane
• automatic capture

Page Segmentation Correction

• show current information flow, regions and classifications
• add a new region
• resize a region
• redraw a region
• delete a region
• reclassify a region
• change information flow order
• restore "default" system generated page segmentation (i.e. discard user changes)

Page Metadata

• edit page numbering
• recatgorize page: cover, table of contents, blank, missing, to do, alt. numbering, index. (there may be a better convention / standard for this kind of metadata).

Export

• Export to scalable PDF
• Export to TIFF
• Export to Image PDF
• Export to Image PDF with OCR text
• export to user specified location
• prompt to view exported file after process complete

UI Backend

• book states
• metadata
• saving books
• deleting books
• undo action
• redo action
• perform page segmentation on a single spread
• perform page segmentation on all spreads in a book
• perform page segmentation with user corrections
• normalize a spread
• normalize a spread with user corrections
• generate thumbnail for spread
• check and regenerate thumbnail for a spread

Export Process

• Character segmentation
• Tokenization
• Glyph generation

Book Management

• handle multiple books