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Image Processing of Calligraphy

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Calligraphy is the art of handwriting. Different languages and writing systems have different features.

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Chinese calligraphy is written with black ink on white paper. The artist uses a red seal as a signature at the bottom. Later, collectors add red seals as historical evidence of ownership.

You can recover the image by removing the red seals and you can process the image in various ways.

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Contributed by: Frederick Wu (April 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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Snapshot 1 shows the original image with contrast and brightness adjusted

Snapshot 2 shows the result after removing the red seals from the image

Snapshot 3 shows the effect with different filters set

Snapshot 4 shows the effect with edge detect set

The Chinese calligraphy chosen is a masterpiece of running script composed by Wang Xizhi, called "Lanting Xu".

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