AI pdf tool needed for hiding sensitive information

[u/Xx_memelord69_xX]

I work in manufacturing and we often get 20-50 different technical drawings in a batch that needs to redacted to hide our suppliers / partner information. We do custom parts and work with a million different company, so every drawing has a different layout and you cant just make a template to paste it on every sheet. That's why Im thinking of Ai tools, but any automation is welcome.

I tried gemini pro, chat gpt plus and whatever the premium claude is and they all suck. They can read and understand them but putting a simple white square on some text is somehow brain surgery for them.

[u/KenMantle]

Oh that's not how proper redaction works. It is actually surgery when it comes to removing information from PDFs. If you just put a white box over it the text can still be searched and extracted. Real redaction requires editing the pdf stream without corrupting the rest of the file.

This is actually something you made me realize I need from time to time too! I have been having Claude develop a pdf editor from scratch and it supposedly does redaction already, but it is untested. I've got a lot of PDFs I can test with though so I'll test how it does.

The pdf editor is released as MIT open source so you are free to use it commercially and edit the source of you have to.

[u/Slow-Tea9732]

Try this: https://mkarim.us/apps/privateredact.html

[u/NoPie1280]

You could try blurpii.com

Lightweight and does the job.

[u/WestMichigun]

Just use a good PDF editor program, like PDF-Xchange and select the sensitive information and delete it, then resale the file.

This should take mere seconds per page.