We consider a class of maps from integral Hankel operators to Hankel matrices, which we call restriction maps. In the simplest case, such a map is simply a restriction of the integral kernel onto integers. More generally, it is given by an averaging of the kernel with a sufficiently regular weight function. We study the boundedness of restriction maps with respect to the operator norm and the Schatten norms.Of course, for this operation to make sense, the kernel function a has to be continuous. Here is our first result; we denote by S p , 0 < p < ∞, the standard Schatten class of compact operators (see Section 2).