Redacting a PDF

[Butter Face]

Print a hard copy, redact and scan back in as a PDF. No better or safer way than that IMO.

[mmm-five]

If they don't need to copy the text out, then save it as an image and PDF that.

It will flatten the file and the only way to get the actual text will be to OCR it, which will of course exclude the redacted bits.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Butter Face said:

Print a hard copy, redact and scan back in as a PDF. No better or safer way than that IMO.

This - or take out a mortgage and pay Adobe for their suite of tools!

Any ‘cheap’ alternatives do not properly redact the info (you will be able to chat and paste into any editor to view the redacted data).

[mmm-five]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

This - or take out a mortgage and pay Adobe for their suite of tools!

You could just use the trial period of Acrobat DC.

If you're completely anti-Adobe, then use the trial period (or pay a one-off fee) of one of the cheaper, non-Adobe PDF tools out there:

• PDF Pen
• PDF Expert
• Abby FineReader Pro

[GCH]

mmm-five said:

If they don't need to copy the text out, then save it as an image and PDF that.

Thanks - this works. Saved each page individually as a JPG on max quality, then opened them all in preview and saved as a pdf.
When copied and pasted from the new pdf, it just pastes the whole thing not the actual text of the document.

[Deesee]

Black it out, take a screen shot use that one...

[Deesee]

dibbers006 said:

FYI, I hope you used a thick marker, or four colour black.

Just because you scrubbed it out, doesn't necessarily mean it's obfuscated!

Me.. mine would come under ICO regs, I have them re typed, not worth the fine..

Do have full adobe on licence for internal stuff.

.... op ....

Black it out on screen / put a virtual post it on with preview and screen shot, then use..

[mike9009]

Can't you just print the edited .pdf as another .pdf?

[mikef]

Acrobat DC is about £25 for a month, after which you don’t need to renew the subscription

If you need to do this, do it properly