Un-Redactor

A PDF editing tool that lets you unredact, put your own information over a redaction box, and extract all text.

This tool is for forensics purposes. It does not "recover" data truly destroyed by redaction tools. It can process large data sets and convert all at once to a HTML pages with a site index.

What it does do is allow you to write over a redaction box. Like white-out.

You can select a redaction box, and select all of the exact dimensions and replace at once.

Note that if you're unredacting a large amount of files at once, it might look like it's frozen at 99%.

• Don't close the program! It's still working!

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It really helps get this in the hands of more people.

You can now view the results of this tool at www.uttcex.net/kvthweatt/unredactor

Update: Added an "Auto Unredact" option!

• Select a folder where your PDF files are located, and an HTML output folder.
• Automatically attempts to extract all text streams by raw text extraction and OCR.
• Creates an index.html for easy navigation!

The executable form was compiled with Nuitka, you may need to install Python if you do not have it.

I am not responsible for your use of this tool.

Republishing altered documents is illegal, and you should not use this to do so.

By using this tool you claim all legal liability for any documents you create with it.