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In this era of digitization, most hard copy documents are being transformed into digital formats. In the process of transformation, large quantities of documents are stored and preserved through electronic scanning. These documents are available from various sources, such as ancient documentation, old legal records, medical reports, music scores, palm leaves, and reports on security-related issues. In particular, ancient and historical documents are hard to read due to their degradation in terms of low contrast and the existence of corrupted artifacts [1]. In recent times, degraded document analysis has been studied widely, and several approaches have been developed to deal with issues and challenges in document analysis. In this project, a comprehensive review is conducted on the issues and challenges faced during the document analysis process, followed by insights on various methods used for document analysis. This project also discusses the advanced methods used for the enhancement of degraded documents that improve the quality of documents during the analysis process. Further discussions are made on the effectiveness and robustness of existing methods, and there is still scope to develop a hybrid approach that can deal with degraded document analysis more effectively [5].