Is there a good free tool to properly redact PDFs? My workflow is to place black annotation rectangles on top and then print as PDF with "force rasterization" on. The resulting PDF files then just consist of pages with one image each. But this tends to be really suboptimal, because it's usually a grayscale or color rasterization, so file sizes are very large vs. monochrome PDFs with CCITT G3/G4 compression (which is absolutely what you want for text content, excellent compression and lossless). Post-processing PDFs to convert them to CCITT is rather annoying and I only know of CLI ways.
I wasn't sure of this, even though sometimes you'd see remains of the original characters near rectangles edges.. does this mean the leaked documents have been de-redacted ?
hopefully this is straw that breaks the camel's back
Why would that be the case? The government isn't redacting "yes we contacted aliens" they're redacting information about military capabilities that might be of use to adversaries.
sorry the title mentioned epstein files, so i was hoping incriminating facts that would accelerate trump's fall
No reason to be sorry ... you are right and the other person seems quite confused about the context.
How do you know if its redacted?
Also good for UFO/UAP/"anomalous phenomena" documents and remote viewing PDFs for what it's worth :)