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Implement secure content redaction with explicit verification #10

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@McanKul

Goal

Permanently remove sensitive content from selected page regions; a black rectangle alone is not redaction.

Scope

  • Draw one or more redaction regions on selected pages.
  • Remove or irreversibly rasterize underlying text, images and vector content inside each region.
  • Add optional replacement fill and label such as REDACTED.
  • Remove metadata and hidden text only through explicit user options.
  • Warn when annotations, attachments or form values may still contain sensitive data.
  • Produce a post-save verification report.

Acceptance criteria

  • Redacted text cannot be selected, copied, searched or recovered from decoded content streams.
  • Images beneath a redaction region do not retain recoverable hidden pixels in output objects.
  • Verification scans output content/objects and fails closed if it cannot establish removal.
  • Rotated and cropped pages map regions correctly.
  • Original files are never overwritten.
  • Tests include text, vector, image, OCR-layer, annotation and form-field fixtures.
  • UI distinguishes permanent redaction from drawing a rectangle.

Design constraint

A rasterization-based MVP is acceptable if the UI clearly discloses the quality/accessibility tradeoff and only affected pages are rasterized.

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