1. A method for masking text in an output document, comprising: providing a print job comprising an original document formed by scanning a hardcopy document comprising user applied highlighting; providing a print job description for the print job, the print job description including instructions for selecting text elements to be masked, the instructions including instructions for identifying user applied highlighting of text elements in the print job; modifying the print job in accordance with the print job description; removing the user applied highlighting from the print job; rendering the modified print job, from which the user applied highlighting has been removed, on an output device, whereby a selected text element is masked, the original document being unaffected by the masking process; and wherein the print job is provided in a native format and the modifying of the print job includes forming a modified print operation in a meta-format in response to the print job description, the method further comprising submitting the modified print operation in the native format to the output device.
1. A method for masking text in an output document, comprising: providing a print job comprising an original document formed by scanning a hardcopy document comprising user applied highlighting; providing a print job description for the print job, the print job description including instructions for selecting text elements to be masked, the instructions including instructions for identifying user applied highlighting of text elements in the print job; modifying the print job in accordance with the print job description; removing the user applied highlighting from the print job; rendering the modified print job, from which the user applied highlighting has been removed, on an output device, whereby a selected text element is masked, the original document being unaffected by the masking process; and wherein the print job is provided in a native format and the modifying of the print job includes forming a modified print operation in a meta-format in response to the print job description, the method further comprising submitting the modified print operation in the native format to the output device. 6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating the print job by scanning the hardcopy document.