How to remove background text from an image file I have this image below, I want to get rid of the text 'MSAR IDs' that is in the background. I am extracting the numbers from the image with OCR, the numbers that have a white background get extracted as is, however the numbers that have the text behind them don't get extracted properly and are not correct because they all have some part of the background text behind them. Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of the big text in background, any software will do for me.
(edit)PS- I got information that MSAR IDs are intellectual property of a company so to be clear I got this as part of a freelance work, my work is to put the numbers in an excel, so I was thinking of making my work a bit easier hence put up this post
It is all about filtering, you can see there are 4 colors, i.e. C_Font, C_Paper, C_Watermark_Paper, and C_Watermark_Font, the filter is just f(C_Watermark_Paper) = C_Paper and f(C_Watermark_Font) = C_Font.
Of course you can use GIMP and easily Google references, i.e. http://howto.nicubunu.ro/gimp-remove-watermark/