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by gumboshoes 1436 days ago
This command:

ocrmypdf --deskew --clean-final --output-type pdf --tesseract-timeout 600 --force-ocr -l eng --jbig2-lossy --optimize 3 /Users/username/Desktop/C1jn2Kz.png.pdf /Users/username/Desktop/C1jn2Kz.out.pdf

generates a PDF with this text for me:

Bad Ul is causing people to get scammed 2022-07-08 If you've asked anybody who's tried to sell anything on Facebook Marketplace, Offerup or Craigslist, | can guarantee you that every one of them have encountered somebody trying to scam them. I've encountered quite a few but I'll explain how this particular scam works and how bad UI contributes to scammers being successful.

I see one error — "I" recognized as a pipe.

On edit: here's the output PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8l9otcu9ohyoz9w/C1jn2Kz.out.pdf?dl...