>When they are happy with the results, the document is finalized into a TIFF or PDF document with the pages flattened into single image objects (so you can't just delete the black boxes - they are now part of the embedded image).
And if you fail to do that, you get this (original link is gone, but here's the discussion, and the gist is the TSA released "redacted documents" where you could just select over the blacked out areas and ctrl-C to recover the text).
And if you fail to do that, you get this (original link is gone, but here's the discussion, and the gist is the TSA released "redacted documents" where you could just select over the blacked out areas and ctrl-C to recover the text).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980465