Medieval documents are often affected by mold growth making the underlying text unreadable. Under ultraviolet illumination, the ink fluoresces and can be easily read. The purpose of this project was to provide recommendations for retrofitting a flat-bed scanner for scanning with ultraviolet illumination and for digital text enhancement to improve readability. The digital images acquired will help preserve the parchment by reducing handling and repeated ultraviolet exposure.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Shah, Manan Yogesh

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D101M

Advisor

• Pedersen, Peder C.
• Carrera, Fabio

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright