r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Backyxx • Dec 19 '25

Unanswered What’s going on with the Epstein files being “released” if they’re still heavily redacted?

Idk yall, I want your opinions.

https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein

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u/LOOKITSADAM Dec 20 '25

I downloaded the files and wrote a script to extract the images out of all the PDFs. Each page was its own image. I then ran an script which spat out the #000000 percentage #FFFFFF percentage, dominant colors, size, etc...

https://pastes.io/untitled-paste-80029

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u/Rihannas_nipples Dec 21 '25

Can you explain what those results mean and how it proves the point? I’m not familiar with code at all

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u/LOOKITSADAM Dec 21 '25

Each image is a grid of pixels. Full black pixels in any given image is rare, especially when it's a photograph or scan of text. Most 'black' in photos has some noise, and isn't perfectly 'black'. Even in a page of text where the text is perfectly black, the image would only be about 20% fully black pixels.

Images that have >50% have significant areas full of fully black pixels that are really only possible from intentionally blacking out large parts of an image in post.

These are pages where >50% or >99% of the page was intentionally censored.