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Only text files are saved.\n\n## Setup for OSX:\n``` bash\nbrew install tesseract\nbrew install imagemagick\n```\n\nTo use, just run\n``` bash\n./the_decay_of_that_colossal_wreck.sh\n```\n\n## Options:\n`-i`: Specify the number of iteration; the default is `10`.\n\n`-f`: Take a text file as input\n\n`-t`: Take a string as input\n\nIf no input text is specified, the poem _Ozymandias_ by Percy Shelley is used.\n\n## Example commands:\n```bash\n# Convert the text of Ozymandias 100 times\n./the_decay_of_that_colossal_wreck -i 100\n\n# Use a file as input\n./the_decay_of_that_colossal_wreck -f path/to/filename.txt\n\n# A string as input, iterating 5 times\n./the_decay_of_that_colossal_wreck -t \"Mouse Reeve\" -i 5\n```\n\n## Example output:\n\nThe original poem:\n\n```\nOzymandias, by Percy Shelley\n\nI met a traveller from an antique land\nWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone\nStand in the desert... near them, on the sand,\nHalf sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,\nAnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,\nTell that its sculptor well those passions read\nWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,\nThe hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:\n\nAnd on the pedestal these words appear:\n'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:\nLook on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'\nNothing beside remains. 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