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Through rigorous experimentation, the team discovered that AI could learn to recognize faint letters by training models on various portrayals of the same images. This innovative method not only identified the ink but also scaled exceptionally well, allowing the researchers to predict letters without previous exposure to the raw data.
As they iterated on their model, the researchers unveiled complete lines and coherent words from the unrolled scrolls. Within a few weeks, they could recover entire columns of text, including special characters that piqued the interest of classical scholars.