Icon converted to a number or letter

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When this image is parsed the icons on the left are converted to an ampersand and are easy to remove - all except the line for Humans Killed (this is from a zombie game) where the icon is converted to an E (that’s ok) or an 8 (not ok).

I use the plain text but I can see on the json that the characters are run together

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Apart from just ignoring the first character is there any advice on how I can get this to be tidier?

For number OCR I recommend that you use Korean as OCR language, the result will be better:

Korean (“kor”):

English (with the issue as you described)

I would never have worked that out on my own - I’ve test a stack of stats screenshots and they’ve all be great! Thank you!