PDF Redact

True content redaction (pdf-redact)

True content redaction

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Remove sensitive content so it cannot be copied/selected, with verification.

Operations

• text-term redaction
• region redaction
• page-level
• metadata cleanup
• post-redaction leak verification

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.annotate:redact_text

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: PyMuPDF redact annots + apply_redactions
• Fallback: —

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

underlying_content_removed (leak check passes)

Related skills

pdf-validation, pdf-metadata, pdf-provenance, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Redact every mention of the account number and all metadata."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.