Hoku Tutorial

Welcome to Hoku, an image processing package for multispectral images. Although intended for recovery of erased or damaged text on old manuscripts, Hoku has other uses, as well.

Hoku is a batch processing package. Jobs are defined interactively, parameters are set interactively, but the job is run in batch mode until it concludes. Hoku is not an interactive image processing editor. You cannot touch-up or draw on an image with this software, but you may be able to recover some text or drawings.

This tutorial shows you how to set up a job, how to run the job, and how to check the results. Some of the more esoteric analysis routines are demonstrated, and how to run a job on a set of files in a directory, or in a set of directories, is also explained. This tutorial is not a complete description of Hoku, but it should get you started.

Please send any comments, suggestions, descriptions of problems to Keith Knox.

You can download Hoku's latest version, here.

Hoku Author: Keith Knox
Hoku Wiki Contributors: Keith Knox, Ivan Shevchuk, Kyle Huskin, Damianos Kasotakis
Hoku Wiki Administrator: Damianos Kasotakis

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