Welcome to a Text Technologies online workshop on recovering text in manuscript images with Professor Bill Endres this Friday!
The workshop will present some of the techniques Bill wrote about in his new book, Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts, which can help recover hard to read text in manuscripts. These techniques can be used on images of different resolutions and quality, even those taken with camera phones.
Bill will do a basic introduction to ImageJ and show us how to divide images, apply alternative LUTs to increase contrast, split an RGB image and how to use alternative color spaces for recoveries. The plan is to have a 60-90-minute hands-on session with Bill showing techniques and the participants trying them out on their own computers.
To participate please register here or contact me on twitter, @ffrwelin.
To prepare, download:
- ImageJ – https://imagej.net/Fiji/Downloads
- The plugin Color Transformer 2 – http://www.russellcottrell.com/photo/colorTransformer2.htm.
- Zip file with images – https://osf.io/7c5sa/
Where: Zoom – register to get the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/GPxGazCMsKepqr1C7
When: Friday April 3 at 10am PDT/ 12pm CDT/ 1pm EDT (in your timezone, click here)
Bill Endres is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, who has worked extensively with the digitization of the St Chad Gospel in the Lichfield Cathedral.
Manuscript Materialities 