badkeys on Nostr: Is anyone aware of an OCR tool that is reliable enough for non-text content like ...
Is anyone aware of an OCR tool that is reliable enough for non-text content like base64 that it can decode something like this?
(Context is something that was just posted on the dev-security-policy list and I currently can't judge the severity, but it happens every now and then that I see private or public keys in images that I'd like to get OCRed, source of this one:
https://archive.ph/u6U2p )
Published at
2026-01-21 09:18:47 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "a5aa0014c4d9b611f296c78d6e55331383ac1b09b3df69a334dd8bd58c378a2c",
"pubkey": "9ebb905f18577391ff6b530a2ce5ea188a2348d3f6a48395b385996fadbe67f5",
"created_at": 1768987127,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"imeta",
"url https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/932/333/426/191/529/original/d2642b5ad9865008.jpg",
"m image/jpeg"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://infosec.exchange/@badkeys/115932340377787179",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://infosec.exchange/users/badkeys/statuses/115932340377787179",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://infosec.exchange/users/badkeys/statuses/115932340377787179",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "Is anyone aware of an OCR tool that is reliable enough for non-text content like base64 that it can decode something like this?\n\n(Context is something that was just posted on the dev-security-policy list and I currently can't judge the severity, but it happens every now and then that I see private or public keys in images that I'd like to get OCRed, source of this one: https://archive.ph/u6U2p )\nhttps://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/932/333/426/191/529/original/d2642b5ad9865008.jpg\n",
"sig": "5e03d37fdba3bb32601a3fd88533f9f048b24f2db4e185a2cffc5f04f13c6bf0b97ea85c6377681c3ce4c07b15c5291b0878cf50aae76e66a6eb749b029f348f"
}