Artificial Intelligence for Historical Manuscripts Digitization: Leveraging the Lexicon of Cyril

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a cutting-edge and revolutionary technology in computer science that has the potential to completely transform a wide range of disciplines, including the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Therefore, since its significance has been recognized in engineering and medicine, history, literature, paleography, and archaeology have recently embraced AI as new opportunities have arisen for preserving ancient manuscripts. Acknowledging the importance of digitizing archival documents, this paper explores the use of advanced technologies during this process, showing how these are employed at each stage and how the unique challenges inherent in past scripts are addressed. Our study is based on Cyril’s Lexicon, a Byzantine-era dictionary of great historical and linguistic significance in Greek territory.