I’m posting a set of pages from the Ghislaine Maxwell released files here with instructions.
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First you have to go download PDFs: courtlistener.com/docket/4355835…
When you open them, many are heavily redacted.
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The digital redaction is an Adobe Acrobat security feature, so Acrobat won’t let you select the hidden text.
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But other PDF readers don’t support Adobe’s redacted security feature. One is Apple Preview…
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Open PDF in Apple Preview or a non-Adobe PDF viewer: some have selected redacted text from within a browser.
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Select & Copy the text from behind the redaction—you’ll barely see it highlight from the edge of blacked out.
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Then you can paste the text into a text file.
If you want to get fancier and flow text over the redaction…
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Export PDF pages as images. Import those as background images into a text or layout app.
Match page config:
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1 in margins
.5 in indent
12 pt Times
27.65 pt leading
Flow the copied text back in over redaction.
Export
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Then the existing body text, and newly unredacted all flow together and you can see what had been redacted.
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