Over the last few decades, nearly all media (e.g., audio, images,
video, text, CAD) have been transitioning to digital representations.
There are of course countless works that predate this transition. One
key challenge is that analog representations in physical media may
be subject not only to noise but to other artifacts specific to each
physical representation. In this work we considered the challenging
case of printed color illustrations, and in particular, comics art.
We have described a new tool that enables such illustrations to be
digitized easily yet faithfully, resulting in a compact, rescalable representation.