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Wouldn't it be nice if someone went through to highlight the newly un-redacted parts of previous JFK reports? I got you! Let me introduce you to `diff-jfk`
Mar 28, 2025 at 8:33amWeb
Show threadpiMar 28, 2025
Get yourself oriented here:
https://pirsquared.org/blog/diff-jfk.html and then you can dive right in.
diff-jfk

As of March 20th, there is a total of 2,343 documents released by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in JFK Assassination Records - 2025 Documents Release. The total page...

Show threadMike IvanovMar 28, 2025
@ivanov nice work! Very interesting stuff, even how the mechanics of redacting worked (brackets drawn by hand and then neat digital box around that section). Did you cover somewhere what tools you used? The docs are different scans?
Show threadpiMar 29, 2025
@mivanov pymupdf, np.bitwise_xor, some gum and duck tape. polars for dealing with the excel part. I think the docs that end up getting rotated were previously just haphazardly scanned at an angle, and the latest version it was actually made square with the page.
Show threadMike IvanovMar 29, 2025
@ivanov you python nerds... of course it's gonna be duck tape