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Why Drawing Black Boxes on a PDF Doesn't Actually Redact Anything

The most common PDF redaction mistake is also the most dangerous. If you're drawing black rectangles over text in a PDF editor, the original text is still there — fully selectable, searchable, and copy-pasteable. Here's how to actually redact a document.

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