alt Hacker NewsYou'd think the go-to workflow for releasing redacted PDFs would be to draw black rectangles and then rasterize to image-only PDFs :shrug:
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shbooms • yesterday at 11:42 PM
often times you will have requirements that the documents you release be digitally searchable and so in these cases, this would not be an option
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As someone who's built an entire business on "anti-screenshots" this is brilliant.
PDF redaction fails are everywhere and it's usually because people don't understand that covering text with a black box doesn't actually remove the underlying data.
I see this constantly in compliance. People think they're protecting sensitive info but the original text is still there in the PDF structure.