A bunch of huge PDF files (thousands of pages each) containing Jeffrey Epstein’s emails were released publicly as part of court documents, but reading them was a total pain — you’d have to download giant files, scroll forever, and manually search through blurry scanned pages to find anything interesting.
Two developers (@rtwlz and @lukeigel) decided to fix that. They:
- Used computers to automatically read and extract all the actual email text from those messy PDFs (this is called OCR + parsing — basically teaching the computer to “see” and understand where the sender, subject, date, and message body are).
- Took all those cleaned-up emails and loaded them into a fake Gmail interface they built from scratch.
- The result is a website called jmail.world that looks and feels exactly like you’re logged into Epstein’s real Gmail account. You can:
- Browse his inbox/sent folder like normal.
- Use the search bar to instantly find emails by keyword, person, date, etc.
- Click on any email and read it properly formatted (no more endless PDF scrolling).
In short: they turned a mountain of unreadable legal PDFs into something as easy to explore as checking your own email. It’s all public data, just made actually usable for the first time.