Mastodawn

“Secure #redaction by design and through extensive #testing”

#Censor 0.6.0 comes with many more #security improvements, motivated by extensive testing on more then 1,000 #PDF document samples. You may now redact securely also links, form fields and widgets. In rare cases, when partial image redaction fails, the more secure full image removal is used instead.

But even more important, Censor now warns you, when unsuccessful redaction is detected during postprocessing. This reduces the impact of known issues of unsecure redaction.

Polish is the 11th language you may speak with Censor. Thanks to its translators (among them, @mondstern)!

Thanks a lot also to #pypdf, #qpdf, #pikepdf, #Ghostscript, #MuPDF, #PyMuPDF, and #poppler contributors for the great resource of PDF document samples!

Find it at @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor and @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

#Censorship #Codeberg #Flathub #GNOME #Linux #Python

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Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.Mar 16

@djb Kudos to djb for supporting #MuPDF usage.

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Robert Wolff Mar 16

That said and celebrated ;), there are things that #Censor is not yet well redacting.

The upstream library #MuPDF (with its #Python bindings in #PyMuPDF) supports by default only redaction of text, vector graphics and images. Testing on a variety of PDF files (thanks to #pypdf, #qpdf, #ghostscript, and their issue reporters, as well as @pdfarranger for their hint) let me discover that some vector graphics are not properly redacted and an upstream issue has been reported for that.

Also, form fields (widgets), signatures and links may be incompletely redacted.

You can find an updated list of “What is redacted? What not?” here: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor/issues/120

#pdf #redaction #security

meta: What is redacted? What not?

> **Warning** > The following description is **not** valid for Censor until version 0.4.0. I recommend to update to [version 0.5.0](https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor/releases/tag/v0.5.0) for secure redaction. ## Elements under redaction rectangles - [x] Text: - characters are removed when ...

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Robert Wolff Mar 16

“Better safe than sorry”

For release 0.5.0 of #Censor, a lot of work went into improving the security of PDF redaction.

PDF documents are tricky, and irrevocably removing elements from them is even more. With this release, before saving a redacted document, garbage is now properly collected and documents are sanitized, which means that metadata, page thumbnails, etc. are removed.

Also, vector graphics are now removed with a more strict option when they overlap with redaction rectangles. On top of that, I added redaction of PDF annotations.

The user interface was refreshed: with undo and redo buttons in the toolbar and improved document saving experience. Drawing rectangles is now indicated by a crosshair cursor.

Thanks to the translators, you may now talk also Czech with Censor!

Get it from @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, or contribute on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #python #MuPDF #PyMuPDF #linux

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Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.Mar 10

#Desktop #Linux Kryptonite detected: None of the main Linux #PDF readers support the #MuPDF rendering engine. In 2026. C'mon. Get real. #SumatraPDF would be the answer, but the author declines to port it as it's too inherently tied to #Windows itself. KDE never incorporated the #Okular backend for #MuPDF and it's been forked on GitHub nearly 12 times. I tried #Sioyek but I found the UI was too minimalist. #EVince is still stuck using #Poppler. https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/

Free PDF Reader - Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF reader and viewer for Windows

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Robert Wolff Feb 28

“A historic moment for Censor”

#Censor – the PDF redaction tool for the @gnome desktop – comes now with a new edit history. It allows you to undo and redo redactions using the right-click context menu or keyboard shortcuts. Also, a bug that prevented repeated saving to the same file path was fixed.

Get the new version from @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, and find it on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor/releases/tag/v0.4.0

You may now talk Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Vietnamese with Censor (thanks a lot to the translators!). If your language is missing from this list I invite you to contribute at Codeberg Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/engage/censor

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #python #MuPDF #PyMuPDF #Linux

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RedPacket Security Feb 11

CVE Alert: CVE-2025-15569 - Artifex - MuPDF - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2025-15569-artifex-mupdf/

#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2025-15569 #artifex #mupdf

CVE Alert: CVE-2025-15569 - Artifex - MuPDF - RedPacket Security

A flaw has been found in Artifex MuPDF up to 1.26.1 on Windows. The impacted element is the function get_system_dpi of the file platform/x11/win_main.c. This

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R.L. Dane

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Feb 8

Mmmmm, naaaah, I'll just use #zathura or #MuPDF, thanks.

rld@Intrepid:~$ doas pkg install calibre
doas (rld@Intrepid) password: 
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 62 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	MathJax3: 3.2.2 [FreeBSD]
	assimp: 6.0.2 [FreeBSD]
	calibre: 8.16.2_1 [FreeBSD]
	gstreamer1-plugins-good: 1.26.10 [FreeBSD]
	gstreamer1-plugins-pulse: 1.26.10 [FreeBSD]
	gstreamer1-plugins-ugly: 1.26.10 [FreeBSD]
	hyphen: 2.8.8 [FreeBSD]
	liberation-fonts-ttf: 2.1.5,2 [FreeBSD]
	libmtp: 1.1.22 [FreeBSD]
	pcsc-lite: 2.3.3_1,2 [FreeBSD]
	podofo: 0.10.4_2 [FreeBSD]
	(((39 python packages)))
	(((12 qt6 packages)))

Number of packages to be installed: 62

The process will require 269 MiB more space.
65 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n
rld@Intrepid:~$

Hacker News Dec 30

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF

https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf

#HackerNews #Zpdf #PDF #text #extraction #Zig #MuPDF #faster #technology

Robert Wolff Dec 21

Censor, a new document redaction tool, is there!

It allows to draw black rectangles on PDF documents and to permanently remove the text and images below. Find it on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor, get it from @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, or translate it on Codeberg Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/engage/censor!

It is a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for #Linux and the #GNOME desktop, and uses the #MuPDF library with its #python bindings from the #PyMuPDF module.

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub

Censor

PDF Document Redaction for the GNOME Desktop

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