robbd/epstein-index

Epstein Files Corpus — OCR'd & Cleaned

Machine-readable text of the publicly released Jeffrey Epstein–related document collections: the DOJ "EFTA" disclosures (Data Sets 1–12), House Oversight releases, court records (Maxwell, Doe v. Epstein/Indyke, Florida v. Epstein, USVI v. JPMorgan, and others), and FOIA productions (FBI, BOP, CBP, Florida). All content is public-record material released by the U.S. Department of Justice, federal/state courts, and FOIA respondents.

This is a living dataset: this snapshot publishes 32,172 documents — including the full House Oversight estate releases of Oct 17 (8,718 pages) and Nov 12 (22,903 pages); roughly 33,000 source PDFs are downloaded and mid-OCR at snapshot time, with over 1.3M catalog entries identified across 73 source datasets.

Repository layout

cleaned/<dataset>/<document_id>.md     # 32,172 cleaned OCR markdown documents
  (house-oversight-nov is sharded into per-1000 subdirs: cleaned/house-oversight-nov/<NN>/house-oversight-NNxxxx.md — Hugging Face caps directories at 10,000 files)
extracted/summaries/<dataset>/<id>.txt # 30,888 extractive summaries
extracted/embeddings.csv               # chunk embeddings (document_id, chunk, vector)
extracted/entities.json                # extracted entity index
catalogs/freeze-manifest-2026-08-27.json  # acquisition freeze: per-dataset locator counts
catalogs/clean-manifest.json           # cleaning-stage stats
catalogs/delineation-manifest.json     # document-id -> source mapping, page/char counts
catalogs/summaries-manifest.json       # summary index
catalogs/acquisition-plan-2026-08-27.md   # how sources are enumerated & fetched

Datasets represented in this snapshot: court-papers, efta-ds1/2/3/4/5/6/7/12, flight-logs, foia-bop/cbp/fbi/florida, house-oversight-oct (the House Oversight October 17 estate release), maxwell-proffer, memoranda, phase-1.

Provenance

• DOJ EFTA releases — justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures, Data Sets 1–12, EFTA-numbered PDFs.
• Court records — SDNY/SDFL and other dockets: US v. Maxwell, Doe v. Epstein, Doe v. Indyke, Florida v. Epstein (2006/2008), USVI v. JPMorgan, grand jury materials, proffer transcripts.
• FOIA — FBI, Bureau of Prisons, CBP, and Florida state releases.
• House Oversight — phase-1 document production, plus the October 17 estate release (house-oversight-oct, 8,718 documents).

Each cleaned document traces to a source locator (URL + sha256) via the freeze manifest and the delineation manifest.

OCR pipeline

1. Acquire — source PDFs cataloged from official release pages (catalogs/freeze-manifest-*.json), downloaded with sha256 verification, mirrored to object storage (DigitalOcean Spaces, epstein-index-files/raw/).
2. OCR — marker-pdf converts PDFs to markdown; low-confidence pages get a vision mop-up pass with Qwen2.5-VL.
3. Delineate — multi-document OCR outputs are split into per-document files (9,269 documents in this snapshot).
4. Clean — running headers, Bates stamps, disclaimers, and redaction artifacts normalized (see catalogs/clean-manifest.json).
5. Extract — extractive summaries, chunk embeddings, and entity index.

Quality caveats

This corpus is machine-OCR'd and not human-proofread. The 2026-08-15 quality battery (11 sensor families, 63 sensors, 80 of 117 documents sampled) produced 2,435 findings; 100% of sampled documents had at least one finding. Severity: 158 critical, 1,801 major, 275 minor, 201 info. The dominant issue classes:

• delineation.page-number-restart — 1,066 findings (page numbering resets across concatenated filings)
• furniture.running-header — 369 (residual running headers)
• repetition.inline-loop / low-entropy-window — 355 (OCR repetition loops)
• legal.* family — 280 (Bates-number gaps, stamp artifacts, transcript line numbers, foreign-text regions)

Findings were measured against the original OCR tier; the cleaned/ tier published here has had the mechanical artifact classes (headers, stamps, Bates furniture) addressed, but repetition-loop and delineation issues remain. Verify quotations against the source PDF before citing. Reference-family sensors (PDF text-layer cross-checks) could not run, so measured findings are a floor, not a ceiling.

Raw PDFs

Source PDFs (~33 GB downloaded so far, of ~1.4 TB cataloged) are not included in this snapshot. They currently live on DigitalOcean Spaces (epstein-index-files, raw/ prefix) with sha256 manifests in the freeze catalog. They may be added here later as a separate raw/ tree or a sibling dataset repo once OCR coverage settles, to keep this repo fast to clone for text-only consumers.

Update cadence

This repo is re-published incrementally as the OCR fleet processes the backlog (~32k PDFs in flight). Expect snapshot commits as new document batches clear delineation + cleaning; manifests are regenerated per batch. Consumers should pin a commit SHA for reproducibility.

License

The underlying documents are U.S. public records (federal court filings, DOJ releases, FOIA productions). The OCR/cleaning/extraction work product in this repo is released to the public domain to the extent permitted; no rights are asserted over the underlying documents. Note that released material may still contain redactions, privacy-sensitive third-party information, and sealing-related gaps as produced by the releasing agencies.