CaptuRING: A do?it?yourself tool for wood sample digitization

Standard procedures to obtain high-quality images of wood samples have become a bottleneck in the digitization dendrochronology. Digitization is currently dominated by flatbed scanners, but use these devices limited sample length and surface flatness. Although several solutions based on digital photography been published, they lack effective processes or are too expensive be widely adopted. Free open-source software hardware has emerged as an alternative create research tools that combine reduced costs with high reliability. Here we present CaptuRING, tool for combining do-it-yourself Arduino® DSLR camera free easy-to-use graphical user interface. We compared CaptuRing image acquisition from standard scanner Epson® V750PRO. CaptuRING outperforms resolution sharpness, while it removes size limitations. Moreover, performs this task less than half time needed V750PRO scanner. emerges reliable low-cost capture high-resolution boosting current processes. The combination open empowers dendrochronology advance digitization.