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Shockingly, you can see redaction info from within your browser's PDF viewer. I am using Brave on Linux, and went here:

https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Matter%20...

As a test, select with your mouse the entire first line of paragraph number 90, and then paste it into a text editor or a shell. The unredacted text appears!



This is exactly the type of bad redactions which the X-ray software will also find.


Yep, bingo:

$ uvx --from x-ray xray "https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Matter%20..."

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You can X-ray a PDF?

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Unsure if you are serious but the commenter is referring to the tool name that this post links to

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There is no way looking at most of the now unredacted text that it should redacted.

It´s clear that the DOJ was paying overtime, based on the number of redactions, so the agents and lawyers just roamed free...

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Why would “Financial Strategy Group, Ltd” be redacted?

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