Use AWS Rekognition to Translate binary code from screenshot

decipher.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# You will need to setup your aws keys in your ENV
# AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
# AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
# and also enable the user to have access to Rekognition:detect_text in IAM

require 'aws-sdk'

# Screenshot from email https://s3.amazonaws.com/spdev/inkovate-binary-2018.jpg

# use AWS Rekognition to detect text on screenshot
client = Aws::Rekognition::Client.new
resp = client.detect_text(
  image: {
     s3_object: {
      bucket: "spdev",
      name: "inkovate-binary-2018.jpg"
    },
  }
)

# parse results to build array like
# ["01101000", "01110100", "01110100", "01110000", "01110011", "00111010", "00101111", ...
words = resp.text_detections.sort_by(&:id).select do |detection|
   detection.type == "WORD" && 
   detection.detected_text =~ /^[01 ]/
end.map &:detected_text

# translate "01101000" to a base(2) integer and then character
translated = words.map {|binary_char| binary_char.to_i(2).chr }

p translated.join('')