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

[Tomas Kuchta]

Why's not just opening the PDF in libreoffice or inkscape, deleting the
text and exporting it as PDF?

Tomas


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 16:18 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> 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
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