Digital Restoration by Denoising and Binarization of Historical Manuscripts Images

This chapter deals with digital restoration, preservation, and data base storage of historical manuscripts images. It focuses on restoration techniques and binarization methods combined with image processing applied on document images for text background enhancement and discrimination. Sequential image processing procedures are applied for image refinement and enhancement on quality class categorized images. Research results on historical (i.e. Byzantine, old newspapers, etc) manuscripts are presented.

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