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I was reviewing a PR and there was a screenshot of the terminal that had output I wanted in text form.

Terminal Screenshot

So, I installed an OCR tool locally (called tesseract) and converted the PNG into TEXT.

# Install the OCR tool
brew install tesseract tesseract-lang

# Convert the PNG to TEXT
tesseract packages.png packages

# Output the contents
cat packages.txt
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mbaneshi commented May 6, 2023

I alias it p2t,(picture to text) , so no more forgotten command
alias p2t='tesseract '

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@mbaneshi smart! well done

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