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Naba Ahtasham
Naba Ahtasham is a Product Analyst at VIDIZMO, with three and a half years at the company. An engineer by profession, Naba works on document and email redaction in Redactor, and has also worked on AI Intelligence Hub and AI Live Insight. Much of the job is carrying problems in both directions, from customers, customer success and sales to the engineering team, and back again as a fix that solves what the customer actually needed.
Microsoft 365 Email Redaction Straight From the Outlook Mailbox
The request usually reaches a Microsoft 365 administrator as a short ticket asking for a redaction tool to be connected to the mailboxes of the ...
September 30, 2026
How to Redact a Word Document or Spreadsheet: What You Gain and Lose by Converting to PDF
The instruction to "just black it out in Word" usually arrives with a deadline attached, from someone who has a records request or a production going ...
September 30, 2026
How to Redact a Scanned PDF: Removing the Pixels Instead of Covering Them
Extract the page images from a scanned PDF that someone redacted by drawing black boxes, and the names under the boxes come back while the page on ...
September 30, 2026
PII in Emails: Bodies, Signatures and Quoted Replies
Ask where the personal information in an email sits and most people point to the body, where someone typed an account number, a diagnosis or a home ...
September 30, 2026
Human-in-the-Loop Approval Before Anything Leaves the Mailbox
Once software reads a mailbox on an organization's behalf, it is a short step to software that also moves, labels, deletes, replies, forwards and ...
September 30, 2026
How to Redact Email Attachments: Documents, Images, Audio, Video
The body of an email is often the least sensitive part of the message it belongs to. A two-line cover note can carry a scanned letter, a spreadsheet ...
September 30, 2026
Multilingual Document Redaction: Arabic, Right-to-Left and Mixed-Script PDFs
What does a redaction tool do with a witness statement written in Arabic, or a benefits letter in Urdu, when the models it runs were built and tested ...
September 30, 2026
How to Sanitize a PDF: The Hidden Places PII Survives After Redaction
A litigation team can check every page of a redacted production with copy and paste, find nothing under the bars, and still send the redacted words ...
September 30, 2026
How to Redact Signatures, Forms and Stamps in a PDF
Signatures are personal information in some releases and routine in others, and the rule that decides which usually comes from records law or a court ...
September 30, 2026
Handwritten, Rotated and Skewed Scans: What OCR Misses Before Redaction
The name most likely to survive an automated redaction of a typed intake form is the one somebody wrote in the margin by hand. OCR built for printed ...
September 30, 2026