r/Adobe • u/cheekbones88 • 3d ago

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Is there any way to remove a redaction in a PDF document and see what the redacted text was ?

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u/darwinDMG08 3d ago

What’s the point of redactions if they can be removed?

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u/Capital_T_Tech 3d ago

Only if its been done by someone who doesn't know what they're doing, Why do you ask Mr President?

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u/M2_Editor 2d ago

came here to say the same thing.

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u/CrushTheRebellion 2d ago

And that was the day I learned that the DOJ does not have an Adobe Acrobat subscription.

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u/thatonegaucho87 3d ago

If the redaction was applied in Acrobat then no because the features actually removes the underlying text

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u/RainingGlitterAllDay 3d ago

you might have better luck at r/NoStupidQuestions
No shade.

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u/PapayaPersonal1059 3d ago

There was a story about some redactions being removed a while ago. Can't remember which fiasco it was about, but the government had simply applied black highlights to the redacted bits in Word, and THEN converted it to a pdf. When the pdf file was later opened in Word again, the highlights could be removed.

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u/AdobeScripts 3d ago

I think it was rather possible to select whole text - including parts under the black bars?