BookTools
Architecture

Introduction

The BookTools utilities have a common architecture to make them easy to use together.

Basic Concepts

Where possible, the intent is to have these derive from the imaging models embodied in ODA RGA, TIFF, JPEG/SPIFF, DARS, PDA, PDF.

Terminology

Pg
a physical page.
Face
one side of a two-sided Pg.
Img
an image representing some physical region of a Face.
ImgSet
a collection of Imgs.
ImgNum
an Img's assigned sequential number in the ImgSet.
PNum
a textual string representing the printed page number of the Face, if present and known.
Region
a rectangular portion of a Face.
ConType
the electronic content type of an Img, comprising, for example, spatial resolution, bit depth, channels per pixel, encoding method.
PhysType
the physical content type of a physical region of a Face, enumerating from a list including, for example, text, line art, halftone, aquatint, woodcut.
RegionSet
a set of Regions from a single Pg.

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