The mueller report pdf downloadable

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Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Search for: Search. Like this: Like Loading Thanks for the information! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. The decision immediately elicited groans from people trying to search the report for juicy details.

A giant file of images has no text to search. News organizations and Mueller fanatics quickly addressed this problem by running the PDF through a process known as optical character recognition OCR to add searchable text to the document.

So, to review: The Mueller report was written on a computer, then printed out on paper, scanned back into digital images, and finally regenerated into text using software. As you might imagine, this flip-flop had some flaws. Redactions in the report confused most OCR software, rendering some of the text illegible, as Johnson pointed out in a follow-up post. Alerted to the updated PDF today, Johnson found himself both impressed and disappointed.

The software the Justice department used to OCR the report, Adobe Acrobat, generated some jumbled or incomplete text in the new PDF, especially around large redactions and photos. And many invisible markers intended to make the document more accessible were applied incorrectly. The file is also still a MB set of images, albeit now with text underlying it. He was rightly proud that his analysis of the earlier PDF had received such attention and seemingly prompted the Justice department to try again, and he promised to write another post analyzing the new effort.

But one of the most important PDFs in American history still contained a few mysteries. One possibility is that when it was received from Mueller, it was on paper. By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy.