How is it not easier to programmatically find&#x2F;replace specific names&#x2F;emails and replace with (redacted).<p>In this day and age it takes a lot more work to print, manually redact and scan than it does to digitally redact permanently.  Your story about redacting PDFs is interesting these were not originally PDFs, they were emails.<p>I can&#x27;t see any other reason for delivering documents as printed&#x2F;scanned PDF than to make it more difficult to analyse  considering they were originally not paper or PDF.  Occams Razor applies here.