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receive text over the network
render text into pixels
mangle pixels through some convoluted Fourier transform to decrease quality
run even more complex pattern matching algorithm on mangled pixels to guess text represented
Can we add AI somewhere down that line?
AI is often used to make the last step produce text that is closer to English. Whether that helps very much depends.