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Comment by pling

12 years ago

They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now...

(No joke)

Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.

  • Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text.

    • Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.

      They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...

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