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Automatically Redact a PDF

Automatic redaction searches for the words or patterns you specify and blacks them out wherever they appear. It suits documents too long to redact by hand, though it can only find what it is told to look for.

How to Automatically Redact a PDF

  1. Upload the PDF.
  2. Enter the words or patterns to redact.
  3. Run it, then check the result before downloading.

When you would use this

  • Removing account numbers from a long statement before disclosure.
  • Blacking out names throughout a case file.
  • Stripping personal identifiers from records before research use.

Questions

Is the text actually removed?

Proper redaction deletes the underlying text, not just covers it. Always confirm by trying to search or copy the redacted term afterwards.

Will it catch every instance?

Only what matches your terms. Misspellings, hyphenation and scanned text without OCR will be missed, so review the output.

Should I check the result?

Always. Redaction failures are one of the most common causes of accidental disclosure.

Need this at scale?

These tools handle one document at a time. When the job is thousands of files, Greenbooks handles document digitization as a managed service, including bulk scanning, OCR and metadata capture, with the output loaded into DocuVenta DMS. Talk to us about volume work.

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