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a set of tools to help with securely redacting and stripping metadata from documents before publishing

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-06-06 · latest 2024-06-10

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  1. Leaving these here: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia and https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools as they are relevant to this topic.
    comment by jbn · 2024-06-10 · in Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)
  2. …the PDF to a flattened image and edits it to apply a colored shape over it. Example[1]. [1] https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools
    comment by signal11 · 2022-02-16 · in Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
  3. …are better options: https://lists.inventati.org/message/20200308.154747.1b4d1245... https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone
    comment by pabs3 · 2021-04-01 · in Tracing Paper (2020)
  4. …like imagemagick's 'threshold' [0] command is being used, so everything is max/min/black/white: https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools/pull/23/c... [0] https://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#...
    comment by arfar · 2017-06-07 · in Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
  5. …The new feature removes the yellow printer dots by converting the document to black and white: https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools/pull/23
    comment by gszathmari · 2017-06-06 · in Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker