```
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFilter
import numpy as np
import random
from random import randint
try:
import Image
except ImportError:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
from multiprocessing import Process
from multiprocessing import Pool, TimeoutError
import os

def rotate(l, y=1):
if len(l) == 0:
return l
y = -y % len(l)
return l[y:] + l[:y]

def removedup(duplicate):
final_list = []
for num in duplicate:
if num not in final_list:
final_list.append(num)
return final_list

im = Image.open("./e.png")

pixels = list(im.getdata())
width, height = im.size
pixels = [pixels[i * width:(i + 1) * width] for i in xrange(height)]

i = 0

while (1):
for x in range(220, 260):
width = 0
while ((pixels[x][0] == (255, 255, 255)) and (width != 934)):
# this insane hardcodation is used to filter out the whitespace to the right edge
while (pixels[x][-400:] != [(255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 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255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255), (255, 255, 255)]):
pixels[x] = rotate(pixels[x], -1)
pixels[x] = rotate(pixels[x], -1)
# print "rotatie"
width += 1
pixel = np.array(pixels, dtype=np.uint8)
im = Image.fromarray(pixel)
for x in range(220, 260):
pixels[x] = rotate(pixels[x], -1)
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(im)
print text
if "DC TF" in text:
im.save("flag.png")
break
i = i + 1
print str(i) + "\n"
```

https://nitesculucian.github.io/2018/09/29/dctf-2018-broken-tv/

Original writeup (https://nitesculucian.github.io/2018/09/29/dctf-2018-broken-tv/).