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How do I "redact" personal or identifying information in PDFs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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I've heard that just visually blocking them isnt enough or something.

There's probably a whole world of metadata silently attached that gets passed over often

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[–] zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Cut out the sections to be censored I think. Stuff might show up under high contrast.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

Yeah, some redaction tools simulate a marker and its not fully opaque. Some add a black rectangle object over top, and if you load into libredraw you can delete the rectangles and see the text underneath. Best way is image capture and coallate back into a PDF

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[–] zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 42 minutes ago

I'm talking about something else

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