Comments on: Keeping your secrets to yourself—what can your shared documents tell others? http://paperjammed.com/2009/04/21/keeping-your-secrets-to-yourself%e2%80%94what-can-your-shared-documents-tell-others/ Has paper taken over your life? Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:27:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Roy Brookes http://paperjammed.com/2009/04/21/keeping-your-secrets-to-yourself%e2%80%94what-can-your-shared-documents-tell-others/comment-page-1/#comment-973 Roy Brookes Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:52:46 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=505#comment-973 The redaction mistakes you describe when attempting to redact sensitive information is surprisingly common. Many highly sensitive documents have been released using the ‘rectangle cover method’ you have described and as a result people have been able to extract the supposedly ‘redacted’ information. The RapidRedact product range (by Onstream Systems) has been specifically developed to overcome these common redaction mistakes and provides many solutions specifically developed for what users/organizations require in a redaction product. Our products provide a plethora of redaction tools which allow the user to customize how they want to redact their important documents. A limitless amount of information such as Social Security Numbers, Names, Credit Card Numbers, etc can be automatically redacted and all hidden meta-data belonging to the document is completely removed. RapidRedact software is capable of opening and redacting any document type including PDF and all office documents (.doc, .xls,. msg, etc) and we aim to provide the user complete control over the redaction process by providing many advanced redaction tools, but whilst keeping the process easy and intuitive. Comprehensive RapidRedact product Information can be viewed at http://www.rapidredact.com and a free trial of our Desktop product is available for download. Regards, Roy Brookes RapidRedact The redaction mistakes you describe when attempting to redact sensitive information is surprisingly common. Many highly sensitive documents have been released using the ‘rectangle cover method’ you have described and as a result people have been able to extract the supposedly ‘redacted’ information.

The RapidRedact product range (by Onstream Systems) has been specifically developed to overcome these common redaction mistakes and provides many solutions specifically developed for what users/organizations require in a redaction product.

Our products provide a plethora of redaction tools which allow the user to customize how they want to redact their important documents. A limitless amount of information such as Social Security Numbers, Names, Credit Card Numbers, etc can be automatically redacted and all hidden meta-data belonging to the document is completely removed.

RapidRedact software is capable of opening and redacting any document type including PDF and all office documents (.doc, .xls,. msg, etc) and we aim to provide the user complete control over the redaction process by providing many advanced redaction tools, but whilst keeping the process easy and intuitive.

Comprehensive RapidRedact product Information can be viewed at http://www.rapidredact.com and a free trial of our Desktop product is available for download.

Regards,

Roy Brookes
RapidRedact

]]> By: Arvind Ganesan http://paperjammed.com/2009/04/21/keeping-your-secrets-to-yourself%e2%80%94what-can-your-shared-documents-tell-others/comment-page-1/#comment-946 Arvind Ganesan Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:58:09 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=505#comment-946 Hi Tad, Nice article on the topic of redaction and how many people get it wrong! We (at Extract Systems) specialize in fully automated redaction as well as semi-automated redaction (where a percentage of documents are selected for manual verification) using our ID Shield software. We also have a desktop version of our product called ID Shield Office which can be used on a case by case basis to produce redacted documents. Our output documents (even when they are in PDF format) are 100% free of any metadata and hidden content because we flatten out an intelligent document (like a PDF) into an image (i.e. raw pixels), process the image, and produce the redacted image (or optionally a redacted PDF from the redacted image). Let me know if you'd like to evaluate our software for free - I would be happy to arrange for a free evaluation copy for you. Best regards, Arvind Ganesan CTO, Extract Systems. Hi Tad,

Nice article on the topic of redaction and how many people get it wrong!

We (at Extract Systems) specialize in fully automated redaction as well as semi-automated redaction (where a percentage of documents are selected for manual verification) using our ID Shield software. We also have a desktop version of our product called ID Shield Office which can be used on a case by case basis to produce redacted documents. Our output documents (even when they are in PDF format) are 100% free of any metadata and hidden content because we flatten out an intelligent document (like a PDF) into an image (i.e. raw pixels), process the image, and produce the redacted image (or optionally a redacted PDF from the redacted image). Let me know if you’d like to evaluate our software for free – I would be happy to arrange for a free evaluation copy for you.

Best regards,
Arvind Ganesan
CTO, Extract Systems.

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