Binarization of ancient documents is a challenging task. Nowadays lot of traditional
binarization algorithms exist with good accuracy but those algorithms cannot remove all kind …

Palm leaves are the earliest forms of documentation for literature, showcasing rich traditions,
philosophical insights, and scientific traditions in areas such as mathematics, medicine …

Most of the historical Kannada handwritten documents are preserved in the manuscript
preservation centre and archaeological departments. The historical Kannada handwritten …

Many Historical Documents have been preserved by libraries to protect these documents
and to recover knowledge. These old documents suffer from different types of degradations …

Text recognition systems typically work well for printed documents but struggle with
handwritten documents due to different writing styles, background complexities, added noise …

This paper presents an adaptive enhancement model with selective smoothing for
restoration of degraded document images with blur, noise and bleed-through, which …

A character is the smallest unit in every line of a script, the development of the script
stretches over millions of inscriptions in Kannada, and these inscriptions play a vital role in …

Digitisation process is very much essential for historical handwritten documents due to
degraded qualities in the manuscript such as ink bleed, arbitrary geometric distortions …

In the recent days, the research area of handwritten character recognition has got much
attention toward ancient inscriptions, since they contain lots of unfolding knowledge in the …

Handwriting-based writer identification has been recognised as a reliable aspect of
behavioral biometrics. This paper provides a comprehensive review of established offline …