Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
Summary
Explores the challenges of reconstructing a base64-encoded PDF attachment from Epstein-related DoJ dumps, highlighting OCR errors, font issues (Courier New), and encoding artifacts that complicate data recovery. The post details experiments with Tesseract, Acrobat Pro, and AWS Textract, and ends with a call for readers to try to recreate the original PDF and to locate other recoverable attachments.