Post #2461109
2026-02-06 00:14 UTC
Long story short:
* Some of the emails in the file dump had attachments.
* The way attachments work in emails is that they're converted to encoded text.
* That encoded text was included - badly - in the file dump.
* So it's theoretically possible to convert them back to the original files, but it will take work to get the text back. Every character has to be exactly correct.
Source: I'm a software developer and I'm currently trying to recover one of these attachments.
Replies (4)
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@proudblond@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 00:18
Godspeed friend
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@apftwb@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 01:24
> I'm a software developer and I'm currently trying to recover one of these attachments. 🫡
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@apftwb@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 01:28
Are you having as much trouble with OCR as the article author? I would have thought OCR was a solved problem in 2026 even with poor font selection.
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@trolololol@lemmy.world 2026-02-06 06:20
Curious here, this is base 64? And what's behind it is more often than not an image or text? And you need to do ocr to get the characters? Maybe for the text it could use a dictionary to rubber stamp whether that zero is actually a letter oh, etc etc? I'm curious to know what the challenge is and what your approach is.