Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
5 days ago
- #OCR
- #Epstein
- #base64
- The DoJ's release of the Epstein archive has faced criticism for incompetence, including poor redaction and corrupted files.
- A base64-encoded PDF attachment was found in the archives, overlooked due to its hex-like appearance.
- OCR attempts to decode the base64 content were hindered by poor quality scans and the Courier New font's readability issues.
- Different OCR tools (Adobe Acrobat, tesseract, Amazon Textract) were tried, but none provided perfect results due to font and compression challenges.
- The article challenges readers to reconstruct the original PDF or find other overlooked attachments in the Epstein dumps.