In partnering with us, you help restore some of humanity’s greatest written artifacts, releasing knowledge and understanding that has been hidden for centuries. Our breakthrough technology takes a digital image of an unreadable manuscript and pushes it through a computerized process that models the shape of the document, detects and overlays the writing on the document, and finally flattens the digitally recreated page so it can be read.Ĭombining our in-house software with the latest advances in digital imaging, Professor Brent Seales and his team of students are poised to make even greater discoveries, including reading the elusive Herculaneum papyri.

Using our “virtual unwrapping” software, we can reveal the text hidden in these ancient treasures.

NCJFs priority is the preservation and restoration of rare. From the inner wraps of charred and carbonized scrolls, to the fused and buckled pages of disintegrating books, the world’s vast invisible library can finally be made visible in a completely non-invasive, damage-free way.īadly damaged manuscripts sit on shelves throughout the world, collecting dust while their potentially valuable contents remain locked away by their wrecked conditions. The center has led the revival of Yiddish Cinema, rescuing these languishing films from oblivion.

Oblivion content restoration project