Sai Siddharth Kota, Raja Massand, Abhinaya Agrawal and Preety Singh, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India

Over the years, many of our ancient manuscripts have been damaged by natural elements or intentionally erased and re-used to record other information. While manual preservation techniques are being carried out for the conservation of our ancient texts, digital image processing is an alternative for the archival storage of the invaluable text contained in them. To successfully recover text from such documents, it is important to understand the nature of the writing and materials on which they are written. Different imaging and processing techniques are needed, depending on the the condition of the manuscript. In recent years, modern imaging techniques have been applied to ancient manuscripts to recover writings that are not visible to the naked eye or not recognizable due to various factors. In this paper, we apply imaging techniques on an ancient manuscript, Yashodhar Charitra, and restore it digitally.

Manuscript Restoration, Noise Removal, Gaussian Bandpass filter, Thresholding, Image Enhancement.