System and method for capturing, organizing, and storing handwritten notes

A method for capturing and storing handwritten notes, the method comprising:

• providing a notebook having a set of pages, each page in the set of pages having:
• a background, and
• a border on the page;
• capturing a page image by scanning at least one page of the notebook with an electronic device;
• detecting the border on the page of the at least one page in the page image;
• unwarping the page image, as a function of detecting the border in the captured page image, to produce an unwarped page image;
• cropping the unwarped page image into a rectangular image;
• and
• storing the rectangular image.

A method for capturing and storing handwritten notes, the method comprising:

• providing a writing surface, the writing surface having
• a background having a predominant background color, and
• a non-continuous border having a plurality of border segments, the border segments:
• (a) having a segment color that contrasts with the predominant background color, and (b) defining edges of a boundary;
• capturing a writing surface image by scanning the writing surface with an electronic device;
• detecting the border segments that define the boundary;
• unwarping the writing surface image using the boundary;
• cropping the writing surface image into a rectangular image using the boundary;
• and
• storing the unwarped and cropped rectangular image.

A system for capturing handwritten notes, the system comprising:

• a writing surface, the writing surface having a background with a predominant background color;
• a plurality of border segments, the border segments:
• (a) having a segment color that contrasts with the predominant background color, and (b) defining edges of a boundary;
• and
• a camera-equipped electronic device for capturing or viewing an image of the writing surface and the plurality of border segments, wherein capturing or viewing the plurality of border segments causes a processor to:
• detect the boundary defined by the plurality of border segments,
• unwarp the writing surface image as a function of the boundary, and
• crop the writing surface image as a function of the boundary.