Tag: redaction
Redact-It 2.0 released

Informative Graphics Corporation has announced the immediate release of a major update to its electronic redaction software. Redact-It 2.0 adds optical character recognition (OCR) of PDF files, along with support for redaction across a greater range of file formats, including WordPerfect, TXT and RTF.
Read More »Redax 5.0 released

Appligent Document Solutions has launched version 5 of its Redax plug-in for Adobe Acrobat on Windows. The software allows users to permanently redact (censor) information in PDF documents.
Read More »Appligent updates enterprise-class redaction software

Appligent Document Solutions has announced the availability of version 3 of its enterprise-class Redax Enterprise Server software for Windows, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit, and Solaris. According to the company, AIX and HP-UX releases will follow shortly.
Read More »This Week in PDF: Mac-based PDF editor adds redaction functionality

This week in PDF has seen major updates to a Mac-based PDF editing application and a PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool.
Read More »This week in PDF: Enterprise PDF security solution announced

This week in PDF has seen the announcement of an enterprise PDF security solution, the launch of a server-based redaction product, a major update to a PDF developer component, and support for searchable PDFs added to a popular scanning product.
Read More »This week in PDF: Acrobat 8 rolls out

This week in PDF, Adobe released a major update to its flagship product range, with PDF security vendor FileOpen immediately announcing full compatibility, while AIIM declares a push towards a standardized document format in healthcare. Conference attendees at the PDF Central Conference were given a full overview by Adobe’s Lori DeFurio (see Karl’s Corner for more).
Read More »This week in PDF: PDF education

As Adobe rightly grabs headlines with its announcement of the Acrobat 8 family of products, this week in PDF sees the announcement of a series of workflow seminars, the association of a PDF/A resource and updates to both a PDF censorship tool and a network PDF printing solution.
Read More »Ubiquitous PDF: Scrub documents the NSA way!

According to a post on Boing Boing, Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has posted the US National Security Agency’s guide to sanitizing Word and PDF documents.
Read More »Military gaffe results in classified data leak

A gaffe by the US military has caused an inadvertent information leak in a report that was posted to the Pentagon website over the weekend. Just a few clicks were enough to reveal names, training procedures and other secrets the U.S. military thought it had blacked out in a PDF report — a process formally known as ‘redaction.’
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