Deblur a text image

[gvandyk]

Hi

I have a text image that is blurred. I believe it is a motion blur in the horizontal direction, as I don't seem to see any vertical blurring.

An example image can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hv1izm5xgcldl ... 3.JPG?dl=0

What is the best way to "deblur" the image? Any ideas

I've tried using cameradeblur with the following:

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cameradeblur -t motion -a 10 -r 0 PG-00973.JPG output.jpg

but the script does not create any output

[fmw42]

See my private email to you. You must compile IM in HDRI mode.

[fmw42]

I think your image has too much noise to get good results. Note also that you must work with a square (subsection) image for that script. So I took a 512x512 subsection, tmp1.png



Then I used my ceptstrum script to generate the cepstrum image to use to find the type of blur (motion in this case) and its arguments.

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im6926hdri cepstrum -c 10000 -G tmp1.png tmp1_cep10000.png

Then I took the cepstrum image to the tool ImageJ and measured the line between the two central dots to get the (half)length and angle.


Then I converted the image to grayscale:
convert tmp1.png -colorspace gray tmp2.png


Then I ran 3 tests with those arguments and with different noise arguments. The angle directions must be reversed between the two applications.

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im6926hdri cameradeblur -t motion -a 14.715 -r -9.78 -n 0.05 tmp2.png tmp2_deblur_n0p05.png

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im6926hdri cameradeblur -t motion -a 14.715 -r -9.78 -n 0.005 tmp2.png tmp2_deblur_n0p005.png

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im6926hdri cameradeblur -t motion -a 14.715 -r -9.78 -n 0.001 tmp2.png tmp2_deblur_n0p001.png

As you can see none really recover the deblurred image well due to amplification of the noise.


You might try denoising the image first. See my scripts denoise and noise cleaner. If that works, then use the IM function -deskew 40% to deskew the text so that the text is more horizontal. Then try my script, textcleaner to remove the gray background.