Reputation: 501
This PNG image is in base64:
data:image/png;base64,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
Is it possible to decode to get the text from it without using OCR technology?
The base64 code above will result in the following PNG image:
Upvotes: 1
Views: 3479
Reputation: 60577
Definitely not.
What you have is a base64 encoded PNG file. PNG files are binary files containing compressed pixel data, not text characters.
OCR would be the only way to try to recognize the characters in the pixel data.
Upvotes: 4