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For those that don't know there's a few websites that can easily grab text from images for you. It can be a big time saver.
Optical Character Recognition has only been around for like fifty years. You can't expect people to just know about it. /s
The worse part is that it used to be a paid thing. But nowadays my cellphone has integrated OCR without much issue and there are dozens of webpages that offer the service in exchange for showing ads. It's nearly ubiquitous now.