A Survey on the Application of Image Processing Techniques on Palm leaf Manuscripts

When the transmission of written knowledge was not effective enough, the value of that knowledge to society can be taught by the care and elegance of its recording(Manuscripts).Not just events, recordings of history includes teachings, interpretations and narrations, Teachings of great sages who came out of compassion for people, gathered them and taught them what the ancient seers taught, what had been passed down the generations through the Manuscript Teachings. In order to preserve these precious knowledge to mankind which are being damaged by aging or due to several other reasons they have to be digitized for future use. Manuscripts being a precious base of knowledge should be protected. Image processing over the past decade has undergone various developments, Many Image Processing techniques have been introduced for an efficient Data Retrieval such as Image Enhancement, Image Segmentation and Image Acquisition. All these techniques have various schemes in order to process the images and get the desired results. Here in this paper we discuss about few techniques proposed by various authors that help us in Enhancing, Assessing, Improvising and providing access to manuscript images for successful data retrieval.