Bug 489299 - Add redaction Tool
Summary: Add redaction Tool
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 22.12.3
Platform: Other Other
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2024-06-27 10:58 UTC by Moritz Poldrack
Modified: 2024-06-27 16:23 UTC (History)
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Description Moritz Poldrack 2024-06-27 10:58:05 UTC
Sometimes it is necessary to redact a document before sending it. To do that with Okular right now is:

- set highlighter to black
- highlight Text to redact
- draw black rectangle over images to redact
- flatten document with Ghostscript, so text can't be marked anymore

This has some obvious drawbacks:
1. As a multistep process, it's relatively easy to forget, for example, the flattening afterwards.
2. The flattening affects the entire document and makes all text unmarkable
Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-06-27 16:23:43 UTC
This seems like a decent quality of life feature that would only simplify features that already exist