Advice on using OCR on an image of a blackboard

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Published on 2010-05-17T20:37:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 20:40 UTC
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I'm trying to get an image of a blackboard readable by OCR. Naturally, most OCR software doesn't like dirty images. What image processing should I try to put the image through to clean the image up?

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Advice on using OCR on an image of a blackboard

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