Blur Before You Publish: Image Redaction Tools

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Jul 24, 2026 · 23m

Taking photos for a blog post seems harmless until a QR code in the background links to your internal dashboard. While text redaction is practically solved, images remain a challenge. This episode explores the open-source tools and cloud APIs available for automated image obfuscation — from pyzbar and OpenCV for QR detection to OCR pipelines that find PII in photos. We break down the two-stage detection problem and what actually works today. Episode 4449 — myweirdprompts.com/n/4449 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/367248)