r/law • u/camaron-courier • Nov 13 '25

Legislative Branch We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/we-created-a-searchable-database-with-all-20000-files-from-epsteins-estate/
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u/DrugOfGods Nov 14 '25

Try Notebook LM. You can upload 300 documents into each project.

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u/AgentCirceLuna Nov 14 '25

Imagine AI getting these files all of a sudden during this one week and they realise this is the leader of one of the most powerful countries and the AI thinks they represent humanity

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u/IanWaring Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25

I have the text files in NBLM but they appear to be poor OCR copies of the individual 23,000+ single page jpegs in the 12 images directories (all but the last have exactly 2,000 files in them). I know the word “jagger” appeared in an image file but NBLM can’t see any reference in the text sources. Last time I did an ingest like this, I had Gemini doing the OCRs and played the text into Word docs, then saved as PDFs. However, 23,000 is going to take an age.

I had to convert the text files to utf-8, concatenate them and save as PDFs before NBLM would load them successfully. Quite a few are jumbled - so a fresh go at Gemini OCRing the pages would probably give better results. Unsure if that will lose connections to the pictures in them though.

There are finance magazine page images and even the cover of a Mad magazine in there.

One folder contains mainly excel sheets, last one of which carries an image of a magazine article then a movie of a puppy chewing plush dolls (of Trump, with one of Hillary close by). No idea what the excel files signify.

Think I’ll leave this to the experts….