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Consider allowing censor rule with no replacement text to help with PDF redactions #5989

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RichardTaylor opened this issue Nov 28, 2020 · 2 comments
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Consider allowing censor rule with no replacement text to help with PDF redactions #5989

RichardTaylor opened this issue Nov 28, 2020 · 2 comments
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enhancement Adds new functionality f:redaction x:uk

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Currently the censor rule system requires text to be removed to be replaced with something.

I am wondering if in some cases it might be made possible, or easier, to redact a PDF and not corrupt the PDF, if it was possible to just remove material without replacing it.

Perhaps this isn't needed as one can replace

I am wondering

with

I wondering

to remove "am " without a replacement, however I'm not sure that's entirely equivalent.

I'm going to immediately backlog this as I don't think it's likely to work, but it is a feature I sometimes would like to try when battling censor rules which corrupt PDFs.
@garethrees garethrees added f:redaction x:uk enhancement Adds new functionality labels Nov 30, 2020
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Linking to #1156.

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Closing in favour of #5966

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