[PLUG-TALK] redact document without rasterizing the whole dang thing?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Brian Scrivner wrote:

> What I've ended up doing, for lack of finding a better option, has been to
> block out the info in Okular then Print to PDF with the option to force
> rasterization. A side effect of this is that the new file has twice or
> more the data size. Another consequence is that the text becomes an image,
> so copy/paste or text search will not work on it.

Brian,

Off the top of my head: use pdftotext and edit the text file, then open it
in a word processor and export as a PDF.

Rich