Redaction is available in the Enterprise version of PDF Converter Professional.
Redaction is the blacking out of sensitive text or pictures from a PDF
file. Document Inspection serves to
remove hidden or background information.
Due to possible legal consequences of exposing such information, it
is common to redact document contents before public release. The PDF format
is complex, and may contain more information than is immediately visible.
Users can leak sensitive information unintentionally.
A key concept is that Deletion is not equal to Redaction. The information
you delete from a PDF with the Delete command is not actually cleared
from the document permanently and can almost always be recovered.
Highlights of Redaction
Redaction lets users sanitize PDF documents they want to release. It
is usually a two-step process: first you select and mark items to be removed,
then after re-checking you apply the redaction. See the appearance of
marked and redacted text under Redacting
Content. With Redaction tools,
you can:
Select and remove text, vector graphics, bitmap images,
or multi-object areas.
Search and remove specific text within the current
document.
Remove all references of certain content from the
current document.
Show redacted areas as unreadable highlights, optionally
overlaid with a Secrecy Coding or a predefined custom text.
Highlights of Document inspection
Remove all comments from a document.
Remove document properties and other meta-data.
Remove links, destinations, attachments etc.
Remove embedded indexes (under Remove embedded non-display
data) that may still contain redacted text strings.
Note
Packages and Portfolios can be redacted by searching.
Packages containing only PDF files can be redacted in this way, but packages
containing package files may not be correctly redacted. When redaction
is applied to a portfolio, only the PDF files in the portfolio will be
redacted. In general, in is safer to unpack files before redacting them,
because this enables redaction by selection and the results can be examined
more easily.
