Technique to correct yellowing and foxing in antique books
Technique to correct yellowing and foxing in antique books
- Author(s): F. Stanco ; L. Tenze ; G. Ramponi
- DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr:20060059
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- Author(s): F. Stanco 1 ; L. Tenze 2 ; G. Ramponi 2
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1: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
2: Dipartimento di Eletrotecnica, Elettronica e Informatica, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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1: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Volume 1, Issue 2,
June 2007,
p.
123 – 133
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr:20060059 , Print ISSN 1751-9659, Online ISSN 1751-9667
New algorithms for the automatic restoration of antique documents affected by foxing and by yellowing deterioration processes are proposed in the paper. The physical restoration of such objects is both expensive and hard to carry out by nonspecialised library personnel. The proposed algorithms ensure fast and less expensive results, and can be used also by nonqualified operators. Moreover, these techniques improve the performance of optical character recognition operators.
Inspec keywords: humanities; image restoration; document image processing; optical character recognition
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Subjects: Document processing and analysis techniques; Humanities computing; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Optical, image and video signal processing
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