Remove background color in image processing for OCR

Question

I am trying to remove background color so as to improve the accuracy of OCR against images. A sample would look like below:

Answer 1

Hope this helps someone

Using one line code you can get is using OpenCV and python

#Load image as Grayscale
im = cv2.imread('....../Downloads/Gd3oN.jpg',0)
#Use Adaptivethreshold with Gaussian
th = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(im,255,cv2.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C,cv2.THRESH_BINARY,11,2)

Here's the result

Here's the link for Image Thresholding in OpenCV