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A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2021-09-14 · latest 2025-12-24

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  1. …bad redactions in PDFs via drag and drop (now specifically trained on these known bad redactions). https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
    comment by iAMkenough · 2025-12-24 · in Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
  2. Free Law Project also has this open source tool to detect bad redactions: https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
    comment by jaredwiener · 2025-12-23 · in Un-Redactor
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    X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
    story by rendx · 2025-12-23 · 122 comments
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    Show HN: X-Ray, a tool for finding bad redactions in PDFs
    story by mlissner · 2021-09-14 · 1 comment