If it's badly out of focus you can use a specialized deblur tool like smartdeblur. The website looks dated but the program is actually amazing, scroll down to the out-of-focus examples. http://smartdeblur.net/. Source: almost 2 years ago
There are tools that can "correct" both Gaussian and motion blur, as an example a car plate from low resolution video stills, example (commercial): http://smartdeblur.net/ before the above the author made a version which was free (but old link is now dead): https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
The biggest problem is when the plate is blurry. Then you can use specialized programs like FocusMagic or SmartDeblur. The second one is like magic sometimes but needs just the right settings via trial and error. Mindblowing examples: http://yuzhikov.com/. Source: over 2 years ago
Smart Deblur[1] is probably one of the best publicly available tools for debluring images like this. It supports a wide array of blur algorithms. I've used it to reverse passwords and identifying details released by security researchers. I was unable to retrieve anything of value from the blurred areas of this image. [1] http://smartdeblur.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
However, I recently found software that could do it. And also a discussion about doing the inverse convolution . Source: about 3 years ago
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