OCR is "optical character recognition". You give a photo of text (like the ones that you posted) to a computer program, and it prints out the text.
If you're on Linux, a good OCR program is Tesseract. I've personally used it to turn scans of old manuals into searchable PDFs, but it also can just print out the recognized text as plain text.
So I'm not the only one on this website who wants to be a Pokémon? Awesome :O
The procurators said the death sentence for "fraudulent appropriation of property” should be upheld for Lan, who should aslo face a 20-year jail sentence for “giving bribes”. The combined sentence amounts to death penalty.
I don't understand, are they going to put her in jail for 20 years first before giving her the death sentence? Or is this some legal formality and she gets death soon?
In any case, good riddance, glad to see socialist countries fighting against corruption
Hope you have backups
If you are on Linux, there is also the program kgeography to practice geography
(Thanks for the reminder, I really should practice again...)
Is that your kitten? So tiny!
Precious kitty, she deserves all the salmons 
~~Resists urge to nitpick the code in the title~~ That does sound really fun, which mainframes are you programming?
Any other transmasc comrades here?
Second :O
According to here, it's from approximately 37000 years ago and the kitten (is that what you call a baby homotherium? the article calls it that) died at only 3 weeks of age.
(This article has more details and is in English, so if you're interested, it might be worth reading.)