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Automating your redaction workflow: from ad hoc to streamlined

If you're redacting 5+ documents a month, it's time for a proper workflow. Here are the five stages: intake, redaction, verification, release, and audit.

2 min · 16 Jan 2026
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Photo and image redaction: faces, licence plates, signs

Not all sensitive data is text. Faces of bystanders in photos, licence plates in car park scans, whiteboard shots with company names — here's what the rules say and how to handle it.

2 min · 08 Jan 2026
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Redaction in the offboarding process: which documents need to be cleaned up?

Ex-employee data must be cleaned up in line with GDPR retention periods. Redaction helps with documents you need to keep — but without personally identifying information.

2 min · 31 Dec 2025
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GDPR: redaction, pseudonymisation and anonymisation — which and when?

These three terms confuse people — and GDPR treats them very differently. Here's what sets them apart and when each one applies.

2 min · 23 Dec 2025
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PDF redaction tools compared: Acrobat, PDF Redact, open-source

What are the realistic options for secure PDF redaction in 2026? Adobe is the veteran — but pricey. Open source lacks features. Here's the honest comparison.

2 min · 15 Dec 2025
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Audit trail for redaction: what to log, why, and how long?

An auditor walks in and asks: "show us how you anonymised client data for report X." Without an audit trail, you have nothing to show. Here's what to log.

2 min · 07 Dec 2025
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Detecting and removing BSNs in documents

A BSN (Dutch citizen service number) can almost never be shared with third parties. In practice it hides in scans, payslips and old contracts. Here's how to find and remove it systematically.

2 min · 29 Nov 2025
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Pattern mode: bulk redaction for recurring patterns

If you have 200 documents where BSNs, email addresses or IBANs need to be removed throughout, clicking through each one manually is a nightmare. Pattern mode automates it.

2 min · 21 Nov 2025
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OCR redaction: making scanned PDFs editable for redaction

A scanned PDF is a series of images, not text. Searching and redacting won't work without OCR. Here's the workflow.

2 min · 13 Nov 2025
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Stripping PDF metadata: why it matters and what's hiding inside

A PDF often contains 10× more data than what you see — author name, software version, edit history, revisions, comments. Here's how to clean it up.

2 min · 05 Nov 2025
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Redacting court documents: the specific rules

When sharing court documents as a lawyer, party, or press agency, specific redaction rules apply. Names of minors, medical data, judicial considerations — here's how to handle it.

2 min · 28 Oct 2025
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Redacting contracts for sales references: what stays, what goes?

You want to show a signed contract to a prospect as proof that "company X works with us". What's allowed, what must go, and how do you stop a prospect from seeing what the previous client paid?

2 min · 20 Oct 2025
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CV redaction: what to remove before you send it on?

Sharing a CV with a client for a placement? Check what needs to come out under GDPR, privacy rules, and plain common sense — plus a checklist so you never accidentally leave in a date of birth.

2 min · 12 Oct 2025
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Why black bars in PDFs don't work (with example)

Two seconds of copy-paste makes the "redacted" text readable again. Here's the technical explanation with a concrete example — and what to do instead.

2 min · 04 Oct 2025