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by TheSageMage 3451 days ago
Right? I was wondering if it would be possible to build something to guess what these redacted lines(at least for the not-8-page-part) say. Since they redact mid-sentence, could you calculate the font size, estimate how many characters there are, and fill in some common words using an NLP based implementation? Or would the sheer volume/complexity be too much?
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There would be a huge number of possibilities given the size and sparsity of the redactions. It's not just words being redacted, but numbers.