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ok after some studying I think it would take some custom metrics to do what I want it to do and I don't have the skillz...

distance metrics are over my head, at the moment, studying...

I haven't been able to successfully threshold it to that point yet, though I am still trying. I did get a skeleton out of it finally and though some of the letters are still connected but they are readable, i believe. My final step is to remove the wavyness of the text. this file does not show it ...

OK so that is out, the other method I was thinking of was removing the shadow and highlights then using morphology to produce a skeleton but so far I have not been able to remove the shadow as it varies greatly once I do resampling to bring up the DPI

I have to prep an image for OCR, image text has variable kerning , either I need to remove the blob that is going to be unreadable completely or insert enough space between the letters for OCR to be able to read it. In the attached example the word brown in caps, the letters BROW, the numbers 789 ...