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To be fair, I've grown paranoid about PDF metadata and redactions, so I prefer taking screenshots and making a new PDF out of those as long as the document is o
by vinay427 6y ago
To be fair, I've grown paranoid about PDF metadata and redactions, so I prefer taking screenshots and making a new PDF out of those as long as the document is only a few pages in length, or using imagemagick or similar to flatten it. I haven't found an easier way to be absolutely sure that my annotations are permanent, and this metadata issue is perhaps even trickier.
- toast0 6y agoPrint, review, and scan is probably easier than screenshotting, if you have the equipment.
- tormeh 6y agoThat this is the state of things is pretty amazing
- ur-whale 6y agoPDF is a shitty format. As proof, I offer: can't grep on it. Which, BTW, if it was possible, would have prevented this mess.
- statquontrarian 6y agoLinux has a pdfgrep command which works pretty well (unless the PDF has images of text).
- ur-whale 6y agoUnless the PDF has every letter placed by independent PostScript like commands or - worse - text has been imported from an SVG file. pdfgrep is at best probabilistic and I stand by my comment..
- flal_ 6y agoAgreed. I work on a solution for extracting data from random documents ( invoices, payslips, you name it ) for natives pdf in the wild ( not scans) we gave up : and just rasterize to send to an OCR software... It's also probabilistic, but way more reliable.
- addandsubtract 6y agoSpotlight can also search within PDFs
- Aerroon 6y agoAnd yet it is the format documents are in. Government websites are full of PDFs.
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- exhilaration 6y agoIf you have a scanner, the easiest way is to take the redacted version provided by your attorneys, print it, then scan it through a document feeder to PDF. Nobody's reconstructing anything from that.
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