Computer Analysis of Photographic Data of Sri Lankan Early Brahmi Inscriptions
Nalin Warnajith · IOSR Journal of Engineering · 2013
Ancient Sri Lankan documents inscribed on stone surface are usually contaminated with various kinds of noises such as scratches, cracks, voids, etc.In authors' previous paper, ideal shape of Brahmi letters has been studied by a digital method and some alphabet fonts of early Brahmi scripts have been created from the analysis of a lot of photographic data of ancient Sri Lankan inscriptions of the same period in the history.The present paper deals with a precise method of identification of ancient letters with the aid of the alphabet fonts, which leads to automatic reading of ancient inscriptions by computers.