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by polishdude20 436 days ago
Do OCR systems still detect invisible words? I would have thought by now they'd use pixel based image recognition.
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I doubt they're using OCR. More likely they're using one of the many text extractors available for PDFs.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650957/how-to-extract-t...

I think nowadays they directly use screen share and image recognition like https://interview.sh for example