Unredactor: A PDF Tool for Forensic Analysis and Redaction Box Editing
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Summary
Unredactor is a PDF editing tool designed for forensic purposes that allows users to write over redaction boxes, extract text from PDFs, and process large datasets by converting them to HTML pages with site indexes. The tool doesn't recover truly destroyed data but enables users to overlay their own information on redacted areas and batch process multiple files.
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This tool is for forensics purposes. It does not 'recover' data truly destroyed by redaction tools.
It can process large data sets and convert all at once to a HTML pages with a site index.
What it does do is allow you to write over a redaction box. Like white-out.
You can select a redaction box, and select all of the exact dimensions and replace at once.
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