Ancient calligraphy manuscripts often suffered from degradation due to human factors and
natural weathering. Image restoration techniques restore the degraded contents in …

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

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

It is common that historical Tibetan documents belonging to historical collections are poorly
preserved and are prone to degradation processes. This causes many challenges that can …

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 …

Image processing is the process of applying different operations to an image in order to
either improve it or extract useful information from it. In this chapter, we are addressing the …

The digital image processing has got much attention of the researchers towards
development of automatic optical character recognition system. The document image …

Localizing, segmenting and eliminating the optic disc region of a fundus image is a
prerequisite task in the automatic investigation of a number of retinal diseases such as …

The inscriptions or Epigraphical manuscripts written on different material such as rock
carving, palm leaf, cloth, metal plates and paper are the cultural heritage of our country; our …