Recognizing letters in a Passport

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Amused23
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Recognizing letters in a Passport

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Hello,
I have a couple of scanned pics of a Passport. I need to remove the background and have the letters left as black to OCR them. How can I accomplish this?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0tjp7ekuo62ow ... 7.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5chs9z3obqqzd ... 1.jpg?dl=0

Working with ImageMagick-6.9.3-Q16 on Windows 7.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Recognizing letters in a Passport

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Sorry, I am suspicious that this may not be intended for legitimate purposes, but to falsify passport documents. So I respectfully decline to help.
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Re: Recognizing letters in a Passport

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Sorry ... I should not have uploaded these pics in the public domain...I have deleted them...I have no nefarious reasons except for OCR'ing them. Sorry again...
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