Unredacting informaiton

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April 12, 2017
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A user asked me if the information in Adobe DC Pro could be unredacted by a newer version of Adobe DC. I'm pretty sure it can not be undone but I wanted to check just in case.

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jamesd51877799

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YES, YOU CAN!!!!

Highlight the redaction and/or text surrounding it, hit CTRL-C to copy, go to your word processor (I use Wordperfect X9), and hit CTRL-V to paste it.

Voila! Goodbye redaction.

I had a soldier try to hide information on his DD-214 by redacting it. I got the above steps off a youtube video. It did not per se unredact it, put it pasted the information as an image in a graphics box.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

May be that the redaction were not applied.

try67

Community Expert

Or it was not really redacted but someone used a text field or comment and then flattened it, thinking it's the same thing. It's a common mistake. Real redaction can't be undone.

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

If you use the redaction function in Acrobat Pro (any version), the original information is gone and cannot be restored. Even a newer version of Acrobat will not be able to restore this information - it's no longer in the PDF file, and no method will be able to restore it.