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Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments (neosmart.net)
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[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I tried to leave a comment, but it doesn't seem to be showing up there.

I'll just leave it here:

too tired to look into this, one suggestion though - since the hangup seems to be comparing an L and a 1, maybe you need to get into per-pixel measurements. This might be necessary if the effectiveness of ML or OCR models isn't at least 99.5% for a document containing thousands of ambiguous L's. Any inaccuracies from an ML or OCR model will leave you guessing 2^N candidates which becomes infeasible quickly. Maybe reverse engineering the font rendering by creating an exact replica of the source image? I trust some talented hacker will nail this in no time.

i also support the idea to check for pdf errors using a stream decoder.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How big is N though?

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Asking the real questions