# Depixelating information in the document (finding what was not supposed to be found)

### In short

* While playing the GreenHorn box on Hack The Box, I encountered a situation where a PDF contained a pixelated password
  * <https://www.hackthebox.com/achievement/machine/409699/617>

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* Upon deeper investigation, I found ways to depixelate the image
  * with
    * <https://github.com/spipm/Depix>
* the result&#x20;

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* potential password

```
sidefromsidetheothersidesidefromsidetheotherside
```

### Diving deeper

* I will dive deeper into how it works another day
* Today, I'll focus on how to depixelate the image
* I extracted the image from the PDF. *(Note: Do not take a screenshot! Always extract the image directly from the PDF to preserve quality.)*
  * I initially made the mistake of thinking it *would be fine* to use a screenshot.
  * As a result, Depix was unable to depixelate the image
* After I passed it to Depix

```
python3 depix.py -p pix.png -s ./images/searchimages/debruinseq_notepad_Windows10_closeAndSpaced.png -o output.png
```

* the result from

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* to

<figure><img src="/files/toS2J4TfAPboD76vEiu8" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## References

* <https://github.com/spipm/Depix>


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