philterd/phileas

Add a FilterStrategy that simply highlights text in yellow/chosen colour

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It would be great if one could choose a filter strategy that does not remove or obfuscate data in a document but simply highlights it.

@nford Thanks for the request. Would surrounding the text with HTML tags be useful? Or would some other method work better for you?

Hey thank you for considering this enhancement. I'm mainly interested in PDFs. Ideally the document would have the highlighting applied in the same way that Adobe Acrobat adds highlighting such that the highlight can later be modified using that software if needed (for my current use case, manual review of and commenting on suggested redactions). I'm not sure how Acrobat represents highlighting under the hood. I recognize that this would likely be tricky to implement.

Great, thanks for the info! I will see what I can do!