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Comment by freehorse

5 days ago

It is smart, but it is not impossible to crack algorithmically imo. In particular, one can take two consecutive frames and run perturbations moving one frame around (ie shift the indexes) to find where the difference between the two consecutive frames minimises. Then subtract these two (perturbed) frames and ocr it. Works easily if the movement is linear/one-directional.

I did this in 20 lines of code (checking only vertical perturbations), and this is what I get with subtracting frame 7 from frame 1:

https://imgur.com/a/only-human-can-read-this-vfDe6ZA

This is not resistant to false positives, and is expensive all things considered.

This ghost font thing is a pretty solid trick