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In 2008 some researchers published an article after trying to recover data overwritten with dd. You can read the paper here: http://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/overwriting_hard_drive_data.pdf

You can see the results of attempted recovery of a plain text in section 3.2. Not very impressive. Still, my initial thought was that with some smart probabilistic approach one might be able to improve the reconstruction significantly for plain text.