A black rectangle can hide text on screen without removing the text stored inside a PDF. Someone may still be able to select, copy, search, or recover what appears to be covered. That gap is why I built RedactGo , a free PDF redaction tool that runs locally in the browser. The problem I wanted to…
iPhone Duo was officially unveiled in early September, but we continue to learn more about the device in the lead-up to its October launch . The latest reveal is a preview of the two-page PDF viewing experience on iPhone Duo. more…
A 100-page PDF packed with screenshots, photos and chat messages accusing a husband of cheating before and after his marriage has been making the rounds online.
Every so often someone asks me for "the docs as a PDF": a client, a reviewer, a manager who wants to read it on a plane. The docs are a GitHub README, and GitHub has no "Download as PDF" button. Printing the page from the browser drags in GitHub's navigation, and most converters quietly break the…
Every time you want to compress an NDA, sign a lease agreement, or compare contract drafts online, mainstream tools (like Smallpdf or ILovePDF) ask you to do the exact same thing: upload your sensitive document to their remote server. Even when services use encryption in transit and promise to…
Converting a PDF to markdown for an LLM means turning pages into text that keeps the structure a model needs: headings as headings, tables as tables, columns in reading order. Markdown is the usual target because models read it well, it is usually lighter than HTML, and a RAG pipeline can split it…
TL;DR: Redaction removes sensitive content from a PDF. A black rectangle only covers that content on the page; the original text can remain selectable, searchable, and extractable underneath. For OCR'd property records, treat successful extraction of a protected value as a failed redaction, even…
This article first appeared on Invoala . When you invoice a client in another country, the PDF needs three things a domestic invoice doesn't: a clearly stated currency (with the exact code), a tax line that says why no local tax was charged, and enough identity information for both businesses to be…