1. A method for recovering information from an image in the presence of noise, the image being a digitized image comprising pixels, each of said pixels having a corresponding digitized image pixel value, said method comprising the steps of: applying a dynamic range reducing filter to the digitized image pixel values; obtaining a range reduced image comprising range reduced image pixels, each of the range reduced image pixels having a corresponding range reduced image pixel value; applying an edge detecting filter to the range reduced image pixels; obtaining a filtered image comprising filtered image pixels, each of the filtered image pixels having a corresponding filtered image pixel value; and adaptively binarizing the digitized image pixel value by utilizing said filtered image pixel value to obtain an adaptive threshold.