Enhancement and Segmentation Techniques for Palm-Leaf Manuscript Images

Abstract

Abstract-Palm leaf manuscripts were a very important evident of our historic. The contents in palm-leaf manuscript were about medicine, Buddhist doctrine, astrology and religion. Mostly palmleaf manuscripts were found in the damaged sources. This paper has proposed the enhancement techniques for palm-leaf manuscript images. The proposed method consists of image acquisition, color model selection, noise reduction, image enhancement and segmentation. The resulted images shown more visible character which could be used in the recognition step, in the future.