The editing process includes three operation stages for page editing, trimming, and color correction. The page editing is an operation of replacing an arbitrary page image and inserting an individually photographed page, and the trimming is an operation of individually or collectively trimming a desired area from each of a series of page images. The color correction is an operation of individually or collectively performing color correction including brightness adjustment and contrast adjustment for each of a series of page images. The generating process includes two operation stages including a setting operation for determining the data size or quality (image quality) of a book file and a file generation operation for integrating a series of page images into a single file.

Next, the operations of the tablet 2 and the automatic page turning apparatus 3 when only left and right pages are being sequentially and automatically photographed by the tablet 2 with the tablet 2 and the automatic page turning apparatus 3 being wirelessly connected to each other are described with reference to FIG. 4 to FIG. 7.