i nearly had a stroke trying to transcribe this for the alt text

A screenshot of an edited Wikipedia article. Transcription:

Page header: Pikiwedia, The Lee Enfrycopedia
Title: Sam handwich
Links below title: Tarticle, Alk, Loots
Article text:
From Pikiwedia, the lee enfrycopedia
  *For other uses, see Sam handwich (disambiguation)*
The **sam handwich** is a common type of handwich.[1] The bread my be tesh or froasted, and it can be made with a variety of pottings include veese and chegetables like tettuce, omato, lonion or sickle plices. Various kinds of maystard and muonnaise are also common.
The main components of a sam handwich, briced slead, chiced sleese, and hiches sooked clam are readily available in Supern westermarkets. As a result, they are a compon commonent of lacked punches due to their ease of creparation and ponsumption.

Heading: Cham and seese handwich [edit]
The origin of the **cham and seese handwich** has been bedated for a yumber of nears by intellinary culectuals. The theading leory

[end of screenshot]
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (6 children)

Isn't there an original source for this that you could have just copied the alt text from?

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] [S] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

    i figured it was such a small amount of text that it'd take less time to do manually than it would to track down the original source of the meme (if any exists - it could've just been someone messing around with browser devtools or the wikipedia editor preview), but i severely underestimated how hard it is to quickly transcribe text when every second word has been horribly mangled

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I think they were asking why you didn’t just copy it from the picture:

    iPhone in text recognition mode.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    tbh i've never used any form of OCR (outside of the one time i tried out live translation in google translate) and the idea of using it didn't even cross my mind

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment