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OCR and Text Mining pt. 1

The conversation started out simply enough at lunch one day: “Dude have you ever been to prnt.sc? There’s this tool called Lightshot that uploads screenshots and just indexes the URLs. You could easily write a script to loop through them.” I had done something similar several years ago in college when I wrote a script to randomly generate Imgur URLs for a drinking game. Cat was one drink, celebrities were three or something like that.