PaperScanner is a python command to extract body text of printing character page picture (bad or not).
You can use this command with option python paperScanner.py –help to have more information.

Download the source code on github https://github.com/hiergaut/opencv/blob/master/paperScanner.py

Of course you need to have opencv library,
some additional lib : PIL and pytesseracct to recognize character.
pip install Pillow
pip install pytesseract

python paperScanner.py –read <FILENAME>
FILENAME is your picture file that you want to recover text character.