BookDrive Capture 5.5
The super advanced camera-based scanning software that comes with every BookDrive.
Scan, crop, enhance and more. In one place.
Meet BookDrive Capture, the software to control the cameras for scanning. Press one button to scan both left and right pages and have the images rendered on screen immediately. You can capture as fast as 1,000 pages per hour.
Complete Feature List
Dual camera control
- In-software camera status and settings
- Live View
- Support Canon EOS DSLRs
- Support RAW
- Capture single side (left or right)
- Capture double sides (both left and right)
Fast Capture & Instant Edit
- Time lapse
- Auto Capture Switch
- Easily insert, replace or delete images anywhere
- Option to batch re-index filename
- Instant rotate, crop, resize, DPI adjustment
- Instant export to TIFF, PDF, or PDF/A
Manage
- Multi-language support
- Metadata and tags
- Option to retain EXIF information
- Ability to resume recent books
- Support Western and East Asian page sequence
- Smart preview
- Magnifying area
In-software camera status
and settings
Vital information such as camera battery status is displayed on the screen. Most camera settings such as shutter speed, aperture adjustments can be configured right within the software with just a click.
RAW File format
(.CR2) support
BookDrive Capture supports RAW (.CR2) format so you can capture the uncompressed, unprocessed pixel information straight from the camera's image sensor for highest quality images.
Camera model support
- : EOS 1Ds Mark III
- : EOS 1D Mark IV, III
- : EOS 1D X
- : EOS 5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 7D
- : EOS 60D, 50D, 40D
- : EOS 450D (Rebel Xsi), 500D (Ti1), 550D (Rebel T2i), 600D (T3i)
- : EOS 1000D (Xs), 1100D (T3)
Smart preview
At any moment, you will see thumbnails of the past shots, full preview of the current shots as well as the magnified view of area of interest simultaneously. With just a quick glance, you are assured that images are sharp and up to the quality standard set.
Resume unfinished book
Go back to right where you left off to continue and finish the book. All the settings and files of the previous job will come back alive.
Metadata
The metadata of the books such as title, author's name and year published can be recorded in a standard compliant XML file for future use in search and record keeping.
Timed lapse
Turn on the Timed Lapse mode and the cameras will be triggered to fire automatically at every pre-defined intervals between 1-10 seconds, requiring you to simply flick through the pages. No button pressing.
Easy insert and replace
Don't sweat if you've skipped some pages. The program will let you go back to insert missing pages or replace the bad shots with better ones. You don't have to worry about its location and file name. The software will take care all of that for you (properly naming and renaming all the effected files).
Instant crop
After images are shot, you can decide to crop them right away in BookDrive Capture software. This functionality is handy if you are not interested in post image processing. There is also a keyboard shortcut for "crop and shoot" so that the cameras proceed with the scanning with your minimum effort.
BookDrive Editor Pro
It's all you need to convert scanned
images
into final output of the highest
quality, ready for
distribution or archiving.
Which BookDrive are you?
Three distinct models.
Which one is right for your project?