Bruce Hogman, a Broward County resident who has worked as an IT professional for the past 30 years, said the effectiveness of OCR tools in redaction efforts could be limited by the challenges involved in programming the software to recognize specific types of data in documents that use different formats and are of varying quality.

As a result, the redaction of sensitive data could take longer than expected, leaving information publicly available for the next several months, Hogman said. He also noted that because much of the information already has been viewable for quite some time, it is questionable how useful redacting the data will be.