A Typeface Searching Technique Using Evaluation Functions for Shapes and Positions of Alphabets Used in Ancient Books
Jun‐Ho Huh, Namjug Kim, Kyungryong Seo · Advanced science and technology letters · 2016
Recently, led by Google, operations to digitize the books stocked at the libraries around the world. Accordingly, both the digitization of documents and the assessment of ancient books, documents and seals using ICT equipments have become interesting issues among the historical circles in the Republic of Korea where historical ages are often distinguished and classified based on the kings governing respective ages. The different kinds of Great Seals and typefaces were used in each year and era by the kings or high ranking officials for the diplomatic documents, letters and orders. Thus, in this paper, a typeface searching technique which includes an alphabet analysis DTW algorithm and a alphabet position analysis method, both of which identify the periods by analyzing the typefaces used in respective eras, are proposed. A reliable result has been obtained for the former with this technique.