This video on redacting sensitive text with PDFPen is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here.
In the spirit of full disclosure, the subject for this video was ripped off from an ad that Katie Floyd did on the Mac Power Users podcast.
If you have sensitive text in a PDF that you don’t want someone to see (think account numbers, amounts, names), many people just use an annotation tool to put a rectangle over it.
The problem with this approach is that it is not actually removing the text from the PDF, it is just covering it up. If someone gets the document, they can get at the text “behind” the image.
This video uses PDFPen’s great redact tool to remove all evidence of a piece of text from a PDF. You can even remove all instances of text with one command.
View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you are able to, I recommend that you watch it with HD turned on.
Oh, and apologies to the Boston Bruins fans out there. All in good fun.
