ENHANCEMENT OF THE DEGRADED DOCUMENT IMAGE AND INSCRIPTION IMAGES

Abstract

Historical documents such as old books and manuscripts have a high esthetic value and highly appreciated. These documents must always be kept and conserve in good condition by organization like museum and national archive because it contains information and messages that become the evidence of human existence and a living community in the past. Unfortunately, there are some documents cannot be read due to quality problems like faded paper, ink expand, uneven color tone, torn paper and other elements disruption such as the existence of small spots and others. It is very important to preserve these kind of artefact as it were become references, research resources and learning materials for grown civilization. Some original manuscripts were prohibited to be displayed to public due to their condition or confidential issues. But, to show and expose these materials in other form is become first priority for the museum, so people can learn about their predecessors. The project is aimed to design and develop work deals with this problem of enhancing the image to make recognition possible and achievable over such images. The work deals with enhancing the multi-lingual inscriptions using NGFICA technique. Multi-lingual here refers to images of inscriptions collected from different sites which have texts in multiple languages.