Abstract Iron gall ink was used in the Western world as a permanent writing material already late Roman times and throughout Middle Ages, until it became obsolete twentieth century. There is much interest experimental methods to determine state of its degradation products on historical documents. Mössbauer spectroscopy with 57 Fe such method, has particular advantage be sensitive chemical bondi...

Digitized archives contain and preserve the knowledge of generations scholars in millions documents. The size these calls for automatic analysis since a manual by specialists is often too expensive. In this paper, we focus on handwriting scanned documents from art-historic archive Wildenstein Plattner Institute. Since consists written several languages lacks annotated training data creation rec...