It's quite funny really. Apparently you just cut and paste the text into Word. They just had the pdf put black rectangles on top.

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pilaf 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why into Word specifically?

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arendtio 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You have a better editor?

	▲	adtac 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ed is the standard Unix text editor.

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iAMkenough 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The average office worker has it on their computer, illustrating how commonplace unredacting could be. Any text tool will work, even some designed to detect bad redactions in PDFs via drag and drop (now specifically trained on these known bad redactions). https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray

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echelon 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why reveal the trick before all the papers have been released?

	▲	alex77456 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Someone wanted to make sure to be the first?
	▲	pohl 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		IKR?!
	▲	Sceptre6 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't think there is a grand conspiracy here. Any schmoe can download these files, select with their mouse, and copy paste into a document.