Virtual restoring by multispectral imaging

Isyreadet (Integrated System for Recovering and Archiving Degraded Texts) is a research project funded by the EU and aimed at realising a system for the virtual restoring of damaged historical documents using innovative methods and tools, such as multispectral cameras and image processing algorithms. During the period 2003-2004 the Consortium, formed by 5 SMEs and 3 RTD Performers has successfully carried out a series of activities related to the analysis of different kind of possible damages, the digitisation of documents using a multispectral camera, the selection and application of the suitable algorithms for the virtual restoration, the implementation of the user-friendly graphic interface.