academic-pdf-redaction

To redact identifying information for blind review, this tool selectively removes exact text matches of author names, affiliations, and emails from academic PDFs while preserving the References section and document structure. It uses PyMuPDF to ensure precise redaction of exact matches only.

Yes, you can anonymize an academic paper without losing references. The redaction process specifically preserves the References section and essential content while removing author names, affiliations, emails, DOIs, and Acknowledgements to ensure the manuscript remains readable.

PyMuPDF handles text pattern redaction by selectively targeting and removing exact text matches in scholarly manuscripts. It avoids deleting entire pages or large regions, ensuring the document's structural integrity and readability are preserved during the anonymization workflow.

During PDF anonymization, the tool removes author names, affiliations, emails, venue names, arXiv IDs, DOIs, and Acknowledgements. It targets these exact text patterns to thoroughly prepare the document for blind review while leaving references intact.

Yes, the PDF redaction workflow includes verification steps after removing text. It verifies the redaction output to ensure the content remains readable and the document integrity is fully preserved before finalizing the anonymized manuscript.