Removing line noise with inpainting

[freznel]

Given images of text like the following

I want to remove the line noise to better OCR it. As the text is always blue I used

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convert $in -fuzz 40% -fill white +opaque blue $out

which resulted in

Is it possible to also fill in the areas of the characters where the line intersects with it to keep the characters contiguous?

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$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.7-3 2013-11-05 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC
Delegates: bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype gslib jng jpeg lcms ltdl lzma png ps png tiff webp xml zlib

[fmw42]

IM does not have any inpainting function to my knowledge. (Though someone else knows an approximation in IM commands).

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