This configuration was created by Adobe for more straightforward sharing among working frameworks and PCs with restricted modification. First of all, You might wonder, What is a PDF? You’re most likely not new to PDFs, as they are wherever in the business world. Contrary to other reports, pink worked the best for me.Want to convert PDF files to Word documents on Mac? But couldn’t find the best way to do it? Here is the solution. I suspect that I’ll end up with a system that stores redacted documents in Evernote for quick searching and the original encrypted PDF’s on a network drive or Dropbox. While I enjoy using Evernote for storing PDFs of instruction manuals, I’m not prepared to save tax or medical documents in an online service. This is still a work in progress as I rethink how I handle scanning and archiving of sensitive documents. It’s a convenient way to generate password protected PDF’s directly from ScanSnap output. It uses PDFpenPro’s AppleScript save method with the encrypt flag. That example uses a password stored in the keychain, rather than hard-coded into the AppleScript. This is a less secure adaptation of the excellent example on. Save document 1 encrypt using AES256 password pw To automate the encryption, this Hazel rule converts any PDF to an encrypted and password protected PDF. I’m considering abandoning the use of the disk images in favor of encrypted PDF’s instead. Many of my PDF’s containing private information are stored in encrypted disk images. Also note that the keywords and underlying OCR text are removed during redaction, otherwise it wouldn't be very secure. Get a PDF with the highlighted terms redactedĪs you can see above, automatic redaction is not perfect.Scan the document with the new ScanSnap profile.Highlight terms on an original document.The large repeat block takes each keyword, performs a search and redacts the term from the PDF. It does the typical AppleScript hokey-pokey to generate a list from the comma separated list of keywords from PDFpenPro. The script grabs the incoming file from Hazel. Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to my_TID Here’s the AppleScript that Hazel is running to automate the entire process: :::AppleScript Combining these two facts was just a few lines of AppleScript. ScanSnap created keywords for me and PDFpenPro can automate redaction. It should be obvious where I’m going now. As Katie points out, Smile gave me a great head-start on automating redaction. PDFpenPro is a powerful PDF editor and version 6 includes some terrific AppleScript support. Out the other end, I get a clean PDF containing some new keywords. Next, I setup the OCR options and enabled the Set Marked Text as Keyword option.Īt this point, I can highlight terms 1 on an original document and then run it through the new ScanSnap profile. I also tweaked the resolution a bit to get higher quality text recognition. To get started, I created a new ScanSnap scanning profile to save a PDF to a folder on my Mac. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to just highlight the terms to redact on the original document and have a redacted PDF copy created? This way, I can easily keep sensitive information private but still have it legible on the original. In recent versions of the ScanSnap software there is an option for setting keywords on black and white documents using an ordinary highlighter. But I own a ScanSnap and it has super powers ( previous review). That’s a nice way to programmatically redact pre-chosen phrases. However, this functionality was not accessible via AppleScript. Katie Floyd posted a nice suggestion to automatically redact specific sensitive phrases from PDFs using Hazel.įor several versions now, PDFpen has had the ability to search a file for a string of text and redact that text. I’ve received some feedback on our scanning episode of Technical Difficulties.
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