Review of Computational Epigraphy
It reviews existing techniques for epigraphers and researchers, but is incremental as it documents rather than introduces new methods.
This paper surveys computational methods for extracting, transliterating, interpreting, and attributing text from stone inscriptions, addressing the time-consuming and subjective nature of traditional epigraphy.
Computational Epigraphy refers to the process of extracting text from stone inscription, transliteration, interpretation, and attribution with the aid of computational methods. Traditional epigraphy methods are time consuming, and tend to damage the stone inscriptions while extracting text. Additionally, interpretation and attribution are subjective and can vary between different epigraphers. However, using modern computation methods can not only be used to extract text, but also interpret and attribute the text in a robust way. We survey and document the existing computational methods that aid in the above-mentioned tasks in epigraphy.