This analysis demonstrates AI-based methods improve readability of palimpsests, suggesting effective archival preservation techniques.
This paper explores AI-based image processing techniques to enhance the readability of 12th-century palimpsests from the Bulgarian National Library. Combining UV/IR imaging with methods like denoising, CLAHE, and sharpening, the study demonstrates significant improvements in recovering obscured texts for research and educational purposes.
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