thesis-anonymizer

Anonymizing a thesis for blind review without affecting page count involves replacing sensitive fields like university, name, and advisor with black blocks using OOXML shading, ensuring the original layout and pagination remain completely intact.

The best way to redact identifying information in a Word thesis for academic compliance is to automate OOXML-based blacking of sensitive fields like university, name, and student ID, producing an anonymized docx that preserves the exact original layout.

Yes, you can convert an anonymized docx thesis to PDF on macOS by using the optional PDF conversion feature, which leverages Word and AppleScript to generate the final document while maintaining strict page-count parity.

Yes, automated document anonymization works for undergraduate theses with complex headers by performing inline replacements directly within the header structure, ensuring all identifying information is blacked out while preserving the original page count.

Redacting text in Word changes page count because standard deletion shifts subsequent content, but you can prevent this by applying OOXML-based black blocks that maintain the exact physical spacing and layout of the original thesis text.