Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy by Assael, Y, Sommerschield, T, Prag, J

“…However, these texts, “inscriptions”, are often damaged over the centuries, and illegible parts of the text must be restored by specialists, known as epigraphists. This work presents Pythia, the first ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. …”