arXiv AI October 2, 2026 By Lorenzo Cardarelli

PyPottery: an AI-powered end-to-end suite for pottery processing and publication

PyPottery is an open‑source, AI‑powered suite that semi‑automates the entire ceramic documentation pipeline, comprising four modules: PyPotteryScan for image extraction and handwriting recognition, PyPotteryInk for automatic inking of pencil drawings, PyPotteryTrace for semantically‑aware vectorization, and PyPotteryLayout for automated layout generation. In a study of 50 hand‑drawn sheets with 240 pottery drawings from the Terramara di Montale in Italy, users reported a median perceived speedup of 40× compared to traditional workflows, with a range from 17.5× to 120×. The results demonstrate significant time savings and suggest that AI can shift cognitive labor toward augmentation rather than full automation.

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