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Source / Kevin Schaul / Jun 20, 2017
“1. Take a screenshot of the news coverage. 2. Crop that image so that just the lower third of on-screen text remains. 3. Run an optical character recognition (OCR) program on the image, and save the resulting text somewhere. I used tesseract for this. 4. Repeat.”
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