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Bank Statement PDF - Amendment?

Just_Passing_Bi
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Here goes, I have on-line banking, I have to produce a bank statement for verification purposes showing last 3 months at address.
Name / address, date, no problem, thing is, I'd rather not show all my personal transactions over that period, after all, it's personal
Is there anyway round it (I've not downloaded the statement yet)
Name / address, date, no problem, thing is, I'd rather not show all my personal transactions over that period, after all, it's personal
Is there anyway round it (I've not downloaded the statement yet)
I'm hopeless with technology, in addition, I suffer with MH issues, what may appear simple, I struggle with, may I ask, please be patient, thank you
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Do you have scissors?
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J_B said:Do you have scissors?I'm hopeless with technology, in addition, I suffer with MH issues, what may appear simple, I struggle with, may I ask, please be patient, thank you0
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There are several PDF viewer and editor tools, some of them free and some of them online. You could easily edit a PDF to redact certain parts (e.g. overlay boxes), then print it to another PDF file to "fix" the edits in place.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=free+pdf+editor
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I've downloaded "pdfEscape" uploaded bank statement, but can't delete / edit tab to delete infoI'm hopeless with technology, in addition, I suffer with MH issues, what may appear simple, I struggle with, may I ask, please be patient, thank you0
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You can use the highlighter tool, setting the colour to black, to obscure the info you don't want to show, then simply print the amended document as a pdf to fix the redactions.
If I need to redact documents at work, this is what I do.2 -
Emmia said:then simply print the amended document as a pdf to fix the redactions.I'm hopeless with technology, in addition, I suffer with MH issues, what may appear simple, I struggle with, may I ask, please be patient, thank you0
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Print to PDF = electronic, another PDF file. No physical printer required. (Microsoft tend to install a PDF printer by default).
As said by both of us, this makes your edits fixed in the new PDF file so the recipient can't "unfix" them to see what you've redacted.
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Emmia said:You can use the highlighter tool, setting the colour to black, to obscure the info you don't want to show, then simply print the amended document as a pdf to fix the redactions.
If I need to redact documents at work, this is what I do.That may not be as secure as you think; depending on the app you use the pdf may contain both the original text or image plus the highlighting as a separate object, so a pro pdf editor may be able to reconstruct the original.Personally I would 'print' the pdf to an image - jpeg or png - and block out the info using an image editor; Paint would be absolutely fine for this.
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outtatune said:Emmia said:You can use the highlighter tool, setting the colour to black, to obscure the info you don't want to show, then simply print the amended document as a pdf to fix the redactions.
If I need to redact documents at work, this is what I do.That may not be as secure as you think; depending on the app you use the pdf may contain both the original text or image plus the highlighting as a separate object, so a pro pdf editor may be able to reconstruct the original.Personally I would 'print' the pdf to an image - jpeg or png - and block out the info using an image editor; Paint would be absolutely fine for this.
I've tried undoing the edits via the first method in a full version of Adobe (with editing functions), and I've not been able to take them off to show the text. But the pdf printer only produces image pdfs, they're not text searchable.
I'd also be surprised if the organisation
a) cares two hoots about what the OP is spending their money on.
b) is ok with the processing employees trying to un-redact the pdf... and provides software to facilitate this if it isn't. That ought to be a sackable offence.
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Have you checked that the recipient will accept edited pdfs for verification purposes?2
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