diff --git a/launcher/include/gameparser.h b/launcher/include/gameparser.h
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-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Joshua Goins <josh@redstrate.com>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-#pragma once
-
-#include <QImage>
-#include <leptonica/allheaders.h>
-#include <tesseract/baseapi.h>
-
-enum class ScreenState { Splash, LobbyError, WorldFull, ConnectingToDataCenter, EnteredTitleScreen, InLoginQueue };
-
-struct GameParseResult {
-    ScreenState state;
-
-    int playersInQueue = -1;
-};
-
-inline bool operator==(const GameParseResult a, const GameParseResult b)
-{
-    return a.state == b.state && a.playersInQueue == b.playersInQueue;
-}
-
-inline bool operator!=(const GameParseResult a, const GameParseResult b)
-{
-    return !(a == b);
-}
-
-class GameParser
-{
-public:
-    GameParser();
-    ~GameParser();
-
-    GameParseResult parseImage(QImage image);
-
-private:
-    tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api;
-};
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diff --git a/launcher/src/gameparser.cpp b/launcher/src/gameparser.cpp
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-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Joshua Goins <josh@redstrate.com>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-#include "gameparser.h"
-
-#include <QBuffer>
-#include <QDebug>
-#include <QRegularExpression>
-
-GameParser::GameParser()
-{
-    api = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI();
-
-    if (api->Init(nullptr, "eng")) {
-        qDebug() << "Could not initialize tesseract!";
-        return;
-    }
-
-    api->SetPageSegMode(tesseract::PageSegMode::PSM_SINGLE_BLOCK);
-}
-
-GameParser::~GameParser()
-{
-    api->End();
-    delete api;
-}
-
-GameParseResult GameParser::parseImage(QImage img)
-{
-    QBuffer buf;
-    img = img.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_Grayscale8);
-    img.save(&buf, "PNG", 100);
-
-    Pix *image = pixReadMem((const l_uint8 *)buf.data().data(), buf.size());
-    api->SetImage(image);
-    api->SetSourceResolution(300);
-
-    const QString text = api->GetUTF8Text();
-
-    // TODO: clean up these names
-    const bool hasWorldFullText = text.contains("This World is currently full.") || text.contains("Players in queue");
-    const bool hasLobbyErrorText = text.contains("The lobby server connection has encountered an error.");
-    const bool hasCONFIGURATIONText = text.contains("CONFIGURATION") || text.contains("ONLINE");
-    const bool hasConnectingToData = text.contains("Connecting to data center");
-    const bool worldTotallyFull = text.contains("3001");
-
-    if (hasLobbyErrorText) {
-        qDebug() << "LOBBY ERROR";
-
-        return {ScreenState::LobbyError, -1};
-    } else {
-        if (worldTotallyFull) {
-            qDebug() << "TOTALLY FULL WORLD (CLOSED BY SQENIX)";
-
-            return {ScreenState::WorldFull, -1};
-        } else {
-            if (hasConnectingToData) {
-                qDebug() << "CONNECTING TO DATA CENTER";
-
-                return {ScreenState::ConnectingToDataCenter, -1};
-            } else {
-                if (hasWorldFullText) {
-                    qDebug() << "FULL WORLD";
-
-                    // attempt to extract number of players in queue
-                    QRegularExpression exp("(?:Players in queue: )([\\d|,]*)");
-
-                    auto match = exp.match(text);
-                    if (match.isValid()) {
-                        return {ScreenState::InLoginQueue, match.captured(1).remove(',').toInt()};
-                    }
-
-                    return {ScreenState::InLoginQueue, -1};
-                } else {
-                    if (hasCONFIGURATIONText) {
-                        qDebug() << "TITLE SCREEN";
-                        return {ScreenState::EnteredTitleScreen, -1};
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // TODO: figure out how to properly clear tesseract data
-    api->Clear();
-    api->ClearAdaptiveClassifier();
-
-    return {ScreenState::Splash, -1};
-}
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