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Manually Redact a PDF

Manual redaction lets you draw over exactly what should go. It is slower than the automatic tool but more reliable, because you are looking at each page rather than trusting a search term to catch everything.

How to Manually Redact a PDF

  1. Upload the PDF.
  2. Draw boxes over the content to remove.
  3. Apply, then verify the downloaded file.

When you would use this

  • Removing a signature block from a document being published.
  • Blacking out photographs in a personnel file.
  • Redacting handwritten notes that no search term would find.

Questions

Is this safer than automatic redaction?

For sensitive disclosures, yes, because you see every page. Automatic redaction is better for volume.

Can someone recover what was under the box?

Not when redaction removes the content rather than drawing over it. Verify by searching the output for the removed text.

Can I redact a scanned page?

Yes. Scanned pages are images, so the marked area is removed from the image itself.

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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