Probably not the "solution" you were hoping for, but I would take the paper to a services shop that has a large-format scanner. Call around first. If they have a large-format scanner, it shouldn't be too expensive, and no stitching would be required.
Second thought, you have way too many images to deal with. With a modern digital camera of 20 megapixels or more, you should be able to get a decent photo "scan" in considerably fewer images. Depending on the size of the original, I would hang it on a wall, and try multiple approaches. First, take one photo of the entire thing. Then, try to fit it in progressively closer images, perhaps in powers of two. You can make things a lot easier for hugin: 1) use a tripod and make sure the camera is "square"— level in two dimensions, 2) very carefully centring each shot, 3) use an adequately high shutter speed and a delayed "silent shutter" setting on your camera to eliminate camera shake, 4) avoid wide-angle lenses or zoom settings; use as much telephoto as you can get away with to avoid edge distortions. Hugin is a wonderful tool, but you'll get better results if you feed it good material. On Sunday, 24 November 2024 at 13:31:23 UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > There are 79 photographs of close-up sections of a large handwritten > family tree with all the lines etc (I believe it's called a "dropline"). > > The photographs were taken by moving a camera back and forth, row by row, > left to right, taking overlapping photographs. > > The person who took the photographs is not very technical and each > photograph not an exact distance along the page or away from the page. > > I have followed pretty much every tutorial, eg: > https://hugin.sourceforge.io/tutorials/multi-row/en.shtml > > I've also tried asking all the AI's for ideas and settings, but I always > end up with each photo getting "curved". The only tutorial that seems to > get close is the one for scanned images at > https://hugin.sourceforge.io/tutorials/scans/en.shtml, but again the > problem seems to be with the varying distance from the paper of each photo. > Plus the apparent need to "tweak" each one makes 79 photos not a fun > proposition! > > Any ideas at all?! > > PS - Here are the average camera settings of each photo: > > F1.8 > Focal length 5mm > 35mm focal length 25 > > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/d8dcf297-3bfe-44a6-b988-f9c7b06b58aen%40googlegroups.com.
