The internet has facilitated its user-base with a platform to communicate and express their
views without any censorship. On the other hand, this freedom of expression or free speech …

This paper introduces a new publicly available image-based Swedish historical handwritten
character and word dataset named C haracter Ar kiv D igital S weden (CArDIS)(https …

Recognition of ancient Tamil characters is one of the challenging task for Epigraphers as the
language has evolved with different characters set. If the inscriptions are on stone walls, it …

As there are countless significant works done for handwritten character recognition, very
meager effort has been reported for inscription characters especially for Tamil stone …

Soft computing is an emerging technology, which is more powerful with fuzzy logic by
choosing the degree of membership function. This work is an effort to extract the foreground …

Digitization and Recognition of handwritten documents have become popular with the
growth of advances in Computing. Even after the introduction of new technologies …

In recent times, there has been a proactive effort by various institutions and organizations to
preserve historic manuscripts as repositories of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage …

India is rich in its heritage and culture. It has many historical monuments and temples where
the walls are made of inscribed stones and rocks. The stone inscriptions play a vital role in …

Character recognition on inscriptions is an area which explores our knowledge of an ancient
language. Inscriptions were done in all kinds of environments. This work focuses on …

Tamil is the oldest language spoken in Tamil Nadu, India, with inscriptions dating back to the
third century BCE found in caves, temples, and archaeological sites. The style and content of …