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Redact, Sanitize, and Optimize PDF Files

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Remove sensitive content by detected coordinates, sanitize interactive structures, and optimize a verified delivery copy.

Redaction, sanitization, and optimization are separate operations. Redaction removes selected content. Sanitization removes or normalizes risky document structures according to policy. Optimization changes representation to reduce or simplify the file.

Redact detected text

Use Get-OfficePdfRedactionPlan -Text when you want to preview the matching areas, or pass the same literal text directly to ConvertTo-OfficePdfRedacted:

Get-OfficePdfRedactionPlan -Path '.\Incident.pdf' -Text 'Secret account'

ConvertTo-OfficePdfRedacted `
    -Path '.\Incident.pdf' `
    -OutputPath '.\Incident-Redacted.pdf' `
    -Text 'Secret account'

The redact-detected-text recipe shows the same operation with a self-contained source PDF.

Prepare a delivery copy

ConvertTo-OfficePdfSanitized writes a new sanitized file. ConvertTo-OfficePdfOptimized -PassThruReport reports the actions and size outcome. Neither should overwrite the only source copy in an auditable workflow.

The sanitize-and-optimize recipe keeps the source, sanitized copy, and optimized delivery file separate.

Visual black boxes are not automatically secure redactions. Use the redaction command and verify extracted content rather than relying on a stamp or shape to hide text.