I’ve seen some people doing exactly that. Most of these are in 12pt Times New Roman, so you can literally just overlay a text box lined up with the surrounding text and try known names until everything matches.
On top of that, some of the redactions are done with software that performs the font smoothing / anti-aliasing after drawing the black boxes, which can cause some letters to leak out a little, which can also be matched to known names
I’ve seen some people doing exactly that. Most of these are in 12pt Times New Roman, so you can literally just overlay a text box lined up with the surrounding text and try known names until everything matches.
On top of that, some of the redactions are done with software that performs the font smoothing / anti-aliasing after drawing the black boxes, which can cause some letters to leak out a little, which can also be matched to known names