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Wow that's kind of interesting and the least bit surprising. Wasn't there a search engine built into finding redacted PDF content? I think it made the headline
by keyle 6y ago
Wow that's kind of interesting and the least bit surprising.
Wasn't there a search engine built into finding redacted PDF content? I think it made the headlines here a while back.
- 867-5309 6y agomight have been the one on reversing pixelation?
- exikyut 6y agoSearching for "pdf search" isn't finding anything significant. "PDF drive" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25240373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25240373, 0 comments) just appears to be an ebook crawler over in the less-than-#FFFFFF-department if you get what I mean. I also found a thread talking about searching PDFs for specific queries (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10154527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10154527) which appears to have generated some interesting results back when the thread was posted, in 2015. Not seeing anything recent though. But on the subject of a search engine specifically for finding redacted content, I couldn't help but imagine the discussion... "Hi, I would like to find a •••••••." "You specifically want a •••••••?" "Yes, literally." [Person 2 walks away scratching their head wondering what person 1 would do with a 'hunter2']
- trevinhofmann 6y agoYou might be remembering `Google PDF Search: “not for public release”` from 2015 [1] and 2019 [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10154527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10154527 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20420209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20420209