How to remove sensitive information and redaction techniques in PDF

Two great resources from Adobe for Acrobat Users.
Lori De Furio pointed out that Adobe's developer technologies team has posted a document on how to remove sensitive information from a PDF.
Have also a look at the comments of that post where Lori explained that the document is being updated as we speak (she'll repost to her  blog when the updated version is live) after that they'll add some information on Redax , a very integral part of many PDF redaction workflows, and used by many federal agencies to adhere to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Thanks to John Landwehr for his post on the proper way to redact documents in their source form and PDF.
Adobe has written a whitepaper titled "Redaction of Confidential Information in a Document".

Moreover, the National Security Agency Information Assurance Directorate has also provided guidance in a document titled: "Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted from Word to PDF"

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Comments

[Redact1]

The trouble with most of the Redaction products available is that they can do only one type of document. Since using RapidRedact i have found that it can do all document types, including emails, word documents, powerpoints etc. This is by far the best redaction software available on the market today.
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[randy michael]

Hi, I was researching redaction and FOIA and came across your blog. I could use you or your readers help, Data Management Group is in desperate need of FOIA and Redaction specialists for a project we have. We are having a really tough time finding FOIA people with a Top Secret clearance and would appreciate any ideas on finding people. Thank you for your time.