Despeckle is the technique of removing speckles (extra pixels) from images gathered by using a scanner, or even after having been captured by digital or conventional cameras.
The reasons why users prefer to remove this so-called noise range from aesthetic purposes to practical ones (so that the images look smoother and better, overall).
There are numerous graphic editors that use several types of methods to despeckle images.
Additionally, one can also rely on the filters from the complex graphic editors to despeckle pictures to a certain degree.