Abstract. Effective indexing is crucial for providing convenient access to scanned versions of large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts. Since traditional handwritin...
Historical sound documents are of high importance for our cultural heritage. The sound of phonographic records is usually extracted by a stylus following the groove, but many old r...
This paper presents a fully automatic framework for the restoration of double-sided historical manuscripts which are impaired by ink bleed-through distortions. First, the recto si...
Global and local adaptive thresholding techniques have been shown effective on particular types of documents. None produces consistently good results on all types of documents. In...
—We propose a new method for an effective removal of the printing artifacts occurring in historical newspapers which are caused by problems in the hot metal typesetting, a widely...
Iuliu Vasile Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Sei...