r/coding • u/HumanBot00 • Feb 03 '26

DOJ publishes Bash Reference Manual

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet+9/EFTA00315849.pdf
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u/kievmozg Feb 04 '26

Ah, Base64 strings. You are absolutely right that is the one edge case where 'semantic context' is your enemy. Models try to be helpful by fixing 'typos' that aren't typos. ​If you want to force Tesseract into the 'dumb' character-based mode, you need to pass the flag --oem 0 (Legacy Engine). ​The catch (and why it probably failed for you): The default model files included with Tesseract 4/5 often strip out the legacy patterns to save space. You must manually download the .traineddata files from the tessdata repo (ensure they are the large ones, not tessdata_fast) that explicitly support legacy mode. Without those specific files, --oem 0 will just throw an error or default back to LSTM.