blur (hide) column in table?

[grgguthrie-108]

I have a pdf with columns of data in a table.

The first two columns are names & IDs, which I want to blur for privacy - but the tool recommeded for this is redaction, and to redact one selects the text, which selects row-wise, not by columns.

Is there some other tool? I woud love to be able to draw over the columnar data with somebrush like in a graphic tool...

[JR Boulay]

With the Redact tool, clic outside of the text and drag a rectangle over the 2 columns.

[grgguthrie-108]

Thanks. Good hint - but that also completely whites out the headerrs and column footers. That I found to do is copy an image of the data inthe two columns, edit it eternally for blur, and then pste it back in. over the data.

In that case, can I flatten the pdf so that the underlying data is gone - replaced by the image overlay?

One way to do that is to save the image of the data columns, then redact them t owhite, then blur the saved image, and then iport it and replace the white spot vacated.

This works, but is a lot of trouble - would be nice to have a blur tool!

Any easier approaches?

[JR Boulay]

The Search Redact tool allows the use of GREP regex.

See this great tuto: https://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2011/05/creating_and_using_custom_redact/