Smoothing out a low res raster signature

I have a really low res raster image of a signature and I've been trying live trace but it keeps making it look unrealistic.  Is there anyway to simply smooth out the jaggedness produced by the low resolution while keeping the shape?

Forget autotracing. Redraw the signature as proper vector paths. An autotracing program has neither human intelligence regarding legibility or readability, nor any sense of human aesthetics. Plus, tracing around a signature is an excellent exercise for someone learning to draw Bezier curves.
Would that be DL650 or DL1000?
JET

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