ABC ANON Quick Start
HOW TO START REMOVING SENSITIVE CONTENT FROM
To redact document (not scanned one) choose New -> New – Manual Mode. Open a file from which you want to remove sensitive content
Mark information for redaction
To mark content for redaction after uploading the file do one of the following:
Highlight content (text or image) in the document by clicking and dragging, right-click to see the context menu and select what type of redacted information this content is.
Choose Tools -> Find and redact to search for a specific text you want to remove from document. Enter word/phrase you want to locate and select the type of data to be redacted. Then click “Redact” or “Redact all”.
Use Simplified mode to quickly mark and remove the content of the same type from document. When the mode is switched on, the selected content will be automatically redacted as the indicated type.
SET THE APPERANCE OF MARKED AREAS
Text and images highlighted in yellow are areas marked for redaction.
Left side menu presents list of the marked areas, method of redaction (cover / overlay text /initials), type of marked content (text or image) and type of information that is protected.
On the right side menu there are redaction properties of the marked are displayed. In redaction properties set the following options:
Redaction method – choose how the removed content will be replaced:
Cover – in a place of removed information redaction areas appear as black (or colored) boxes.
Initials – in a place of removed information the first letters of removed words appeares. Select the color, size and style of the font.
Text – in a place of the removed information the typed text appears. Select the color, size and style of the font.
Type of data that is removed from file – choose what kind of information is removed from the file.
Fill color – specify the fill color from the color palette for the marked areas after redaction.
Endnote – add a note to redacted area placed at the end of the document. Choose the font size and color. You can also add endnote by choosing Tools -> Insert Endnote
Apply to all areas of this type – decide if you want to apply the chosen properties to every area with the same type of data (for example to every marked phone number).
EXPORT DOCUMENT WITH APPLIED REDACTIONS
Once you have redacted document export redacted file by using Tools -> Export document after redaction. Select if you want to export the document as a:
PDF file
scanned file
Then, the “Save as” dialog box is displayed. Choose location and a filename. The suffix “anonymized.pdf” is added to the filename. The original file remains unchanged.
REDACTED DOCUMENT
* The personal data in this sample file is fictional and not intend to refer to any actual person.