01Redaction
Redaction removes whole text runs, so a mark over one word takes its line — and the tool lists every line it is about to remove before you press it. Two things it cannot reach, and it says both: a form field’s value lives in the document’s form data rather than on the page, so a mark over a filled field hides nothing; and an image is one object, so marking a corner of a scan removes the scan. The mark itself is visible on purpose. Anybody can see that something was removed and roughly how much.
02Cropping
Cropping changes which part of the page you see. What falls outside it is still in the file. If you are cropping because something is sensitive, cropping is the wrong tool.
03Word export
You get the text and the paragraph breaks back. Tables, images and the page design do not survive the trip. When the layout is the point, go and find the source document.
04Text reflow
A paragraph is worked out from where the glyphs sit on the page, which is a good guess and still a guess. Replacement text that runs longer can overlap the line beneath it. Look at the page before you send it.
05Forms
Native PDF form fields work. XFA forms do not — the ones that greet you with a page saying to open this file in a particular reader. That reader is still the answer for those.
06Digital signing
RSA and ECDSA certificates, from the Windows store or a DSC token. A certificate that signs with neither is refused by name rather than half-handled. If you are filing in India, use RSA: Indian DSC tokens are RSA in practice, and the signature profile that India’s rules point at names RSA and no alternative, so an ECDSA signature that is cryptographically perfect could still be turned away by a portal. What no offline check can do is ask the issuer whether a certificate has since been revoked — that answer only exists on the issuer’s server, and this application does not call one.
07Long documents
The preview in the window draws the first 40 pages, so past that you cannot see a page to click it. Selection is not capped — Select all means every page, and a page range reaches the ones the preview never drew. It is the picture that stops at 40, not the document and not what a tool acts on.
08Platform availability
Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11. The x64 package is the one that has been installed and used. An ARM64 package now builds from an ARM64 engine and an ARM64 OCR build, and the packaging step refuses to produce it unless every native binary inside really is ARM64 — but nobody has run it on an ARM64 machine, so that is a package that exists rather than a build we can tell you works. No macOS, no Linux, no portable copy for a USB stick, no Android release.
09Release status
The package is built and signed, and Windows installs it without a trust prompt. It is not on the Microsoft Store, because that listing has not been submitted, and there is no download link on this site yet.
10The network claim
There is no code in this application that makes a network request, and the build asserts it. What we cannot do is make Windows enforce that. Windows does not enforce a network boundary for a full-trust desktop application, so this is a statement about our code and not a wall around it.
11Windows crash reports
We collect no telemetry of our own. Windows collects something: if the application crashes, Windows Error Reporting sends diagnostics to Microsoft, and those can include data from the document that was open. It is not ours to switch off, so it is written here instead.
12Source and licence
Free to use, at work as much as at home, under the Creasepoint Licence. It is not open source and the source is not published. The licence does let you take the installed package apart and check whether everything above holds.