Survey of open source PDF solutions

The presentation will first provide an overview of the current active open-source projects that deal with PDF rendering, creation, and manipulation. We will be looking at the activity of the projects (i.e. frequency of commits, number of contributors, history, etc.) We will also look at the platforms that the projects build on, the language used, … Read more

High-Security PDF Redactions

There is a well-defined mechanism for doing Redactions in PDF files; first, creating “redaction annotations” to mark up the items to be redacted, and then second, applying those annotations all at once. While simple in theory, in practice this process has been found to leak information. In particular, in a number of recent, high profile … Read more