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Jun 24, 2018 This wikiHow teaches you how to redact (remove permanently) text in Microsoft Word. You can also convert your Word document into a series of images. Finally, both Windows and Mac users can use the 'Inspect Document' tool to remove metadata, such as the author name, from a document. This version of How to Redact in Word was reviewed on. Start the redaction tool by either selecting Edit->Redact->Mark for Redaction or clicking on the Redaction tool button on the toolbar Begin marking the content that you wish to be redacted. This can be done in 3 different ways listed below. Nov 06, 2018 The best way to redact would be as Jim suggested, highlight the text in black. But you must then save the text as a Fax (or print it, and scan it back in as a.
- Well, there migth be a series of tools for Windows, but concerning MacOS or Linux, there are less alternatives. For Mac OS I found only two applications that are really able to redact securly. Both of them are not free, but If you need the security of redaction, you should really be sure, that it works.
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What methods are there to blackout a part of a PDF?
I don't want to simply use Preview's annotation tools and then save the document, since then someone could open up the PDF and remove the annotation to reveal the part of the document which I'm trying to black out.
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If you want to leave it as a PDF, you really need to use the actual redaction tools in Adobe Acrobat, otherwise you are simply leaving yourself open to reversals.
If you want to save the PDF as a graphics file, then any black box over the words should work.
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If you are looking for a no-cost way in Preview.app
- File->Export (or save as)
- Export PDF to TIFF file format (it's a multipage image format)
- Open TIFF file
- Export TIFF to PDF file format
Maintains page structure, OCR will be lost.
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A free solution, is to convert the PDF to an image, then save it as a PDF again. The only drawback is that the PDF will remove any OCR info it might have had.
Steps:
- Open the PDF file to redact in Preview.
- Black out text using any method you want (e.g. use the rectangle annotation tool with black as the color and choose the thickest border. Then draw the shape as many times as needed until your document is blacked out.)
- File > Save As, and choose an image format such as PNG or GIF.
- Open the saved image file, then File > Save As, and choose PDF.
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Harald Hanche-OlsenHarald Hanche-Olsen
I tried saving my image as an image in preview and this only works if your pdf is one page. If it's multiple pages, exporting as an image will only save the first page.
The solution I found was this (it's a bit tedious, but you can get through it pretty fast once you get the hang of it):
Open PDF in GIMP (free photo editor) as an image. Only open those pages that need redaction. When you open it as an image, it essentially flattens the pdf so you're no longer able to highlight and copy text.
Used kitchen hutch for sale. Use tools in GIMP to black out text.
Then, file -> print. On the print screen, choose 'Print Preview'. Download mi flash tool for mac. This will bring up the pdf in Preview where you can export/save the file.
If you have more than once page, then you can choose the thumbnail view in Preview and drag/drop the pdfs onto one another to form a larger document that you can then print. This is what I do when I have to sign just a few pages of a large pdf document.
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Hope this helps!
LC8LC8
Open your PDF or image.
Use the line tool or whatever to make your redactions.
Then File>Print. Instead of printing to paper, save it as a PDF. Doing it this way causes the black lines or boxes to no longer be clickable. If you just 'save as' a new PDF, the boxes remain able to be manipulated,
JoeJoe
I opened the PDF in preview, exported it as a jpg. Opened word/pages and pasted the jpg into the document and then used a rectangle box to blackout whatever I wanted to and then I exported it as a pdf.
Karan NavaniKaran Navani
Features include redaction.
Using a demo version today: the option to redact is greyed out, so I can't confirm its efficacy.
According to a 2008 post by Adam Greivell:
… the redaction tool worked pretty well. Actually, it even seemed to muck up the text in a live pdf document so you couldn’t copy what was under the redaction. … I can’t say how much I’d trust this feature with sensitive live text. I scanned all of my documents to PDF with no OCR before I did my redaction. Then, I printed to PDF to add one more layer of separation to make sure nobody could see what was behind the redactions.
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OK, so the only real solution is to redact a paper copy and then scan it back in! Windows 7 download tool for mac.
All other methods mentioned here don't work properly.
Importing the image in to GIMP and editing it there doesn't work, as once the page is put back in to a PDF document, that page is no longer text searchable as the whole page is now seen as an image!
Skim just doesn't work for redacting text. Or maybe it's just completely unintuitive with no good help.
Most other methods leave the text accessible beneath the redacted 'white outs'.
I have given feedback to Apple about this (http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html)
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PDF Studio version 8 has a manual redaction tool built-in its content editing tool. It is real redaction that actually removes content. It can select text and images in the PDF document content and redact them.
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PDF Studio version 9 (coming March 2014) will have a full fledged redaction feature where users can select an area on a document, and it will redact any images or text intersecting with this area.
PDF Studio works on Mac (including 10.9 Mavericks) but also Windows and Linux and the same license key can be used on 2 different computers with different OS.
Gerald HolmannGerald Holmann
The subject of redation of PDF files seems to be a difficult subject concerning programming. As Acrobat Pro CD is much to expensive for me as a private non-profit user, I was looking for an alternativ. It took me rather long time to find a real good alternative to Acrobat Pro:
- PDF Studio PRO from Qoppa (http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/): This tool really gives you virtually the whole functionality of Acrobat Pro. It is a solid part of software and according to my extensive tests the only tool that is really able to redact safely PDF files. Note that you need the PRO version, as the standard version lacks the ability of redaction.
I tried several other possibilities, which all don't work properly:
- Apple Preview: this application allows to visually hide parts of a pdf behind a box, but it is always possible to remove the box or copy / paste the text behind as the sensitive information is NOT removed from the file!
- PDF Pen: PDF Pen seems to be a nice tool and it offers a nice reaction functionality - seems to at least. Be careful about this tool: it messes up your PDFs completely as you redact. Therefore the functionality is limited to a files who are by chance compatible with this tool. Especially in PDFs with pictures (i.e. all scanned files) PDF Pen has big problems and messes up your file so it gets irreversibly unusable. My contact with the support never brought a solution so far over a time of several weeks.
- Nuance PDF Coneverter for Mac: I bougth this tool as it offers a redaction functionality. Unfortunately there is no trial version available, but the refunding worked fine without problems. As soon as I had the tool installed, I had to realise, that it was nothing else than PDF Pen under a different hood. Now you don't have to wonder, why PDF Pen is using the OCR engine of Nuance :-). For the record: PDF Pen = Nuance PDF Converter for Mac. Same errors while redacting as expected. Result: equally useless as PDF Pen.
As a simple summary I suggest you spend the $129 for PDF Studio PRO from Qoppa.
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