The PDF Association published a thorough forensic analysis of the 4,085 PDF files released by the US Department of Justice under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The analysis revealed that while redactions were correctly applied (no recoverable hidden text, despite social media claims), the DoJ’s processing pipeline left behind orphaned document information dictionaries inside compressed object streams, leaked software metadata (OmniPage CSDK 21.1), and converted all JPEG images to low-res 96 DPI bitmaps to strip EXIF data. The piece is a masterclass in why you should never trust a single PDF analysis tool, and why proper document sanitization is harder than most government agencies appreciate.
PDF Forensics: The Epstein PDFs
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