Hi Timo, I tried the line removal example [1] included with leptonica, I have had luck before using it with tesseract for images with horizontal lines. I didn't manipulate the pdf beyond converting it to a grayscale image and rotating it, my ghostscript won't handle your parameters for some reason. This is the unadorned image without the horizontal lines [2] and these are the results [3]. Not 100% but I think more than 30% and maybe an approach to consider.
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