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Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript

Posted by timothy on from the careful-how-you-hide-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's been a lot of talk about recovering blurred or pixelated text, but here's an actual implementation using nothing but Photoshop and a little JavaScript. Includes a Hollywood-esque video showing the uncovered letters slowly appearing."

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  1. Interesting by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Funny

    From TFA:

    The most important feature is the JavaScript scripting environment built into Photoshop, which is far more powerful than the AppleScript environment (and a much nicer language, in my opinion).

    Hey Timothy, are you trying to get the mac fans riled up?

    I'd try this myself, but I stopped pirating PS at version 6. Be interesting to see what other Slashdotters make of this.

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    1. Re:Interesting by caffeinemessiah · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's another easy way to recover blurred text in Photoshop: Ctrl+Z.

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    2. Re:Interesting by DreadPiratePizz · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm on a mac you insensitive clod! It's command-z for us!

  2. Oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now for all of the other pixellated stuff...

    Bwahahahaha.

    1. Re:Oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm off to ebay to try it on all those XP serial numbers.

  3. Re:Computer... magnify and enhace by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    BIG squares.

  4. Old tech by Glith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeez. Hasn't anyone seen CSI?

    1. Re:Old tech by mpaulsen · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was going to watch it online, but they created a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track my IP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s

    2. Re:Old tech by guyminuslife · · Score: 4, Funny

      Writer: Hey, how would you find someone over the Internet?
      IT Guy: You mean, like, track their IP address?
      Writer: IP address. That sounds good. Okay, how would you do it?
      IT Guy: Well, working here, my dumbass manager would insist that I write a stupid GUI interface in Visual Basic, but---
      Writer: Awesome! We'll put that down. *click*

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  5. Re:OR Japanese pr0n? by moderatorrater · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're on the wrong forum for that line of reasoning. You'll want to find a site that's either anti-censorship or pro-porn. Good luck finding something like that on the internet.

  6. Re:Just ovveride? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heck, forget the plugin, these would be pretty simple to automate these within Photoshop.

    This is gimp country. On a quiet night, you can hear adobe squeal like a pig.

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  7. Re:Failure by finiteSet · · Score: 3, Funny

    But unless you have inside info about how the text was rendered and obfuscated, you're better off taking a step back and squinting.

    Little Girl: "Wow! It's a schooner!"
    Willam: "You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
    Little Boy: "A schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead!"
    Willam: "Well you know what? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, THAT'S JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!!"

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  8. Re:Just ovveride? by lostmongoose · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm gonna go with 'funsturbing'