Hi, I think I am competent for your project. I am a senior PhD student with more than 6 years rich experience in image processing and pattern recognition.
I think there are two key parts in your project:
1. image denoising
2. character recognition.
I think I can solve both these two tasks.
First, I am experienced in image denosing as I have published a paper about image denoising in a top journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Then, I am experienced in some character recognition algorithms too, such as the template matching or feature extraction based recognition algorithms.
I can give you a satisfied result. To get your credit, maybe you can send me some sample images first. And I start to work on them and give you an elementary result. Then you can decide whether or not award your project to me.
My e-mail is 253508302 at qq dot com. Looking forward to working for you on this project. ^_^