Comment by CamJN
2 days ago
You can on Apple’s OSs, and some googling suggests you can do it on windows too if you save the image and open in the image viewer. Therefore I’d be surprised if you couldn’t get it working on various linux distros too...
You have to understand how ridiculous this answer sounds.
This is a technical forum. There is an expectation of how things are shared. Images and relying on built in OCR is not anywhere in line with that expectation.
Still it would be nice if the author used the right format for the job.