Enhancement and character recognition of the erased colophon of a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book

Derek J. Walvoord; Roger L. Easton Jr.; Keith T. Knox; Matthew Heimbueger

doi:10.1117/12.587848

17 January 2005 Enhancement and character recognition of the erased colophon of a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book

Derek J. Walvoord, Roger L. Easton Jr., Keith T. Knox, Matthew Heimbueger

Proceedings Volume 5676, Document Recognition and Retrieval XII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.587848
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

A handwritten codex often included an inscription that listed facts about its publication, such as the names of the scribe and patron, date of publication, the city where the book was copied, etc. These facts obviously provide essential information to a historian studying the provenance of the codex. Unfortunately, this page was sometimes erased after the sale of the book to a new owner, often by scraping off the original ink. The importance of recovering this information would be difficult to overstate. This paper reports on the methods of imaging, image enhancement, and character recognition that were applied to this page in a Hebrew prayer book copied in Florence in the 15^th century.

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Derek J. Walvoord, Roger L. Easton Jr., Keith T. Knox, and Matthew Heimbueger "Enhancement and character recognition of the erased colophon of a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book", Proc. SPIE 5676, Document Recognition and Retrieval XII, (17 January 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.587848

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