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Nice one. Has anyone OCRed this back into text?

I attempted OCR with OCRmyPDF / Tesseract. It's not great, but it's under 1% the size, at least. https://github.com/pronoiac/altair-basic-source-code

Maybe you should try something like EasyOCR instead: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

Feel free to run EasyOCR against it and submit a PR