Try to put a difusion filter on the flash (speedlite or something like 
that), and better with 3 or 4 flash sources from diferents angles, I've 
seeing your images and I think that has bad options with soft processing.

El lunes, 19 de noviembre de 2012 18:07:28 UTC+1, Neo Song escribió:
>
> Dear All,
>     I am now needing to OCR the embossing characters on the bank card. 
> These characters are in two kind of font. The first one is Farrington 7B, 
> which is used to present the account number, and another font is 
> unknown(maybe bank-dependent) and is used to present card holder name, card 
> issue time and card serial number.
>     Now the problem is the embossing characters are very difficult to OCR 
> since they will be very bright under special light. While if the extra 
> light is not applied, the card background will largely affect these 
> characters, and will cause error.
>     I have uploaded two images. The first sample image shows that improper 
> light applied will cause the characters to be dark/light mixed and OCR 
> result is very bad. The second image shows that a better light will make 
> the background dark and embossing characters very sharp, while the OCR 
> result is a little bit better, but still not good enough.
>     Can anybody give me some advice on the light applied, or image 
> pre-processing technique to improve the OCR result? Thank you all!
>
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> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YH-MqsJ4pVg/UKpm8nAYDzI/AAAAAAAAAAg/39dydvF5nWY/s1600/1.jpg>
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> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LbKuKrWafT4/UKpnK6qpOAI/AAAAAAAAAAo/gGLCxfGT1E8/s1600/2.jpg>
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> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YH-MqsJ4pVg/UKpm8nAYDzI/AAAAAAAAAAg/39dydvF5nWY/s1600/1.jpg>
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