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Anonymous
January 16, 2017
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Adobe Acrobat DC - Redacted Documents

  • January 16, 2017
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Hi, wonder if someone could help me.  Once you have applied redactions, text recognition is removed from documents.  If I should add this search ability back in, can you confirm that redacted words remain so and others can access original information?

Thanks, MK

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    Correct answer Christine_W

    No, you can re-OCR the PDF and it will not add back in the redacted text.  Once you "Apply" redactions, the redacted text is gone for good regardless of what you do to the PDF afterwards.

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    Anonymous
    January 17, 2017

    My main query is whether someone can discover original text on redacted document which has had OCR added back in. thanks

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    Christine_WCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    September 14, 2017

    No, you can re-OCR the PDF and it will not add back in the redacted text.  Once you "Apply" redactions, the redacted text is gone for good regardless of what you do to the PDF afterwards.

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