DOJ DataSet 12 · four files

Help us read the cipher pages.

Four documents from the Justice Department’s DataSet 12 release, mirrored here page by page. Machine OCR failed on every one of them, so nobody has read them and search cannot reach them.

You type what you see, choose how you think it should be read, and record it. When a second member arrives independently at the same reading, the page moves on. Nothing here is scored or timed.

The other pages are cuttings, photographs and typeset poems, and the workbench does not offer them. Read together the four documents are somebody’s scrapbook — poems about captivity, collages about a child. Worth knowing before you open one.

Reading a page and using every tool on it needs no account. Recording a reading needs a free one and a community handle — worth getting before you start rather than after.

We cannot show the files or their counts at the moment. That is a fault on our side and nothing about the record has changed — DOJ’s own copies of these four documents are published in DataSet 12 and are unaffected.

Signed in, the pages you have worked on are listed here with the date you last sent one, so you can find your way back to a page you spent an evening on.

We publish the page image and nothing else. The first text anyone sees becomes the text everyone corrects instead of reading the page, and our mistakes would then turn up in every submission after it. Each page carries the URL of DOJ’s own copy and the fingerprint of the PDF we rendered it from, so you can check our mirror against the original.

“Transcribed” means two members typed the same characters. “Solved” means two members also arrived at the same reading of them, and the server was able to re-derive that reading from what they typed. Neither is a claim about what the page means — only that the same work has been done twice, by two people, and can be repeated by you.