Redacting a PDF So the Text Is Really Gone: Rebuilding Pages with pdf.js and pdf-lib, Then Checking the Result

The Redact PDF tool ensures sensitive data is permanently removed by rebuilding pages with pdf.js and pdf-lib, avoiding simple black rectangles that leave text accessible. Simultaneously, Apify offers two actors for converting PDFs to Markdown for LLM pipelines. The gochujang/pdf-text-extractor leads in popularity with 273 users and 2,080 runs, while leadharbor/pdf-to-markdown-ocr provides an alternative solution. Both tools focus on maintaining page structure and handling scanned documents for clean data retrieval.