Open Source Mueller Report

Open Source Mueller Report is an enhanced edition of the Mueller Report.

Document Releases

Other Media

Features

High fidelity text; not deteriorated by photocopy, redaction, and optical character recognition

Supports full-text search

Split document into Volume 1 and Volume 2

PDF page numbering matches content page numbering

Descriptive page headers with section name

Working hyperlinks for table of contents and footnotes

Redactions are represented explicitly in the source code

Reduced file size (under 5 MB)

Canonical URL with greater permanence than DOJ distribution

Open source

Motivation

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a redacted version of the Mueller Report on April 18, 2019. The DOJ release suffers from technical limitations that interfere with public discussion about the Mueller investigation. For example:

The DOJ PDF cannot be searched

Passages of text in the DOJ PDF cannot be highlighted or copied-and-pasted

The table of contents in the DOJ PDF is not "clickable"

The page numbers in the footer do not match the DOJ PDF page numbers

The DOJ PDF appears to be derived from an optically-scanned copy and, consequently, there are visual artifacts in the PDF

The DOJ PDF is a large file (137 MB)

Open Source Mueller Report is an effort to improve the Mueller Report by providing a "clean room" reimplementation of the document from source code.

Limitations