• DocumentCode
    896584
  • Title

    Technique to correct yellowing and foxing in antique books

  • Author

    Stanco, F. ; Tenze, L. ; Ramponi, Giovanni

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Matematica e Informatica, Univ. of Catania
  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    123
  • Lastpage
    133
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    document image processing; humanities; image restoration; optical character recognition; antique books; antique documents; automatic restoration; deterioration processes; foxing; nonqualified operators; optical character recognition; yellowing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Image Processing, IET
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1751-9659
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/iet-ipr:20060059
  • Filename
    4225394