Although it is always ideal to have text stored as… well, text, sometimes an image or screenshot is the only option we have for the time being. The problem with having text stored as an image is that it can’t be easily copied and pasted, the font can’t be changed, and the file must be stored in an image format instead of something easily editable and small like a text file. Rather than going through the painstaking process of manually converting the image to text by typing it out, there are tools that can do the job for us on a Linux system.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-extract-text-from-image