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Digitisation Processing and Recognition of Old Greek Manuscipts (the D-SCRIBE Project)
After many years of scholar study, manuscript collections continue to be an important source of novel
information for scholars, concerning both the history of earlier times as well as the development of cultural
documentation over the centuries. D-SCRIBE project aims to support and facilitate current and future efforts in
manuscript digitization and processing. It strives toward the creation of a comprehensive software product, which
can assist the content holders in turning an archive of manuscripts into a digital collection using automated
methods. In this paper, we focus on the problem of recognizing early Christian Greek manuscripts. We propose a
novel digital image binarization scheme for low quality historical documents allowing further content exploitation in
an efficient way. Based on the existence of closed cavity regions in the majority of characters and character
ligatures in these scripts, we propose a novel, segmentation-free, fast and efficient technique that assists the
recognition procedure by tracing and recognizing the most frequently appearing characters or character ligatures