Museums and libraries recover historic texts using spectral imaging system

Engineering and Technology

The spectral imaging system collects images in many wavelengths of light to reveal faded text that is otherwise undetectable to the human eye. The system was created with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities by researchers from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and museum studies program with the goal of providing a practical solution to help curators, archivists and librarians get more out of their collections.

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