I've seen the new redaction tool demonstrated and it looks pretty easy to use. Up til now, if you wanted to do redaction to a PDF document you had to use something like Appligent's software product Redax (which several paralegals I know highly recommend). Redax is a $349 program, although Appligent sells a Redax-Lite for $199, which doesn't redact on scanned images (only text-based PDFs).
That said, it appears that some people are mildly critical of Adobe's redaction tool. Duff Johnson, a fellow who is very knowledgeable about PDF matters, says that Adobe's redaction tool is not as good as Appligent's. I understand his point, but I think that most people aren't going to want to pay $349 just to do redaction, and would rather invest that money in Acrobat 8.0, which has other features (i.e. bates-numbering). The easy work-around to the problem that he describes is to first make a duplicate copy of any file that you are going to do redaction on.
I have been following your piece on the new Acrobat redaction tool in version 8 Professional. Are you aware of a product called pdfDocs by DocsCorp.
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e-Filing capability. Enable PDF files to be brokent up based on minimum file size or page number to comply with court requirements
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Posted by: Kerry Carroll | December 03, 2006 at 05:18 PM
The trouble with most of the Redaction products available is that they can do only one type of document. Since using RapidRedact i have found that it can do all document types, including emails, word documents, powerpoints etc. This is by far the best redaction software available on the market today.
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Posted by: Redact1 | February 04, 2007 at 05:34 PM