diff --git a/crates/content/README.md b/crates/content/README.md
index 6ab984dd49..fedeadc56b 100644
--- a/crates/content/README.md
+++ b/crates/content/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ The parser is tolerant (unreadable bytes are skipped and counted, never fatal) a
 panics. `redact` and (later) `edit` build their interpreters on it; the graphics-state tracker
 and the `Patch` API of architecture §6 grow here.
 
-Unfiltered inline images with built-in or Indexed colour spaces, and image masks, use their
-sample layout (including per-row byte padding) to locate `EI`. This preserves pixel bytes
-that look like the terminator. Filtered images and resource-defined colour spaces retain
-the tolerant delimiter heuristic; damaged or truncated layouts fall back to it too.
+An inline image ends where the renderer's tokenizer (`hayro-syntax`) ends it, so the parser
+and the renderer read the same operators after the image, and redaction removes what the page
+actually draws. Only where that tokenizer reads no image (its parameters don't read, or no `EI`
+passes its checks) does the parser locate `EI` by its own rules: unfiltered images with built-in
+or Indexed colour spaces, and image masks, by their sample layout (including per-row byte
+padding), other images by the tolerant delimiter heuristic. Such an image is counted in
+`Parsed::ambiguous_images`, because the operators after it may not be the ones the page draws.
diff --git a/crates/redact/README.md b/crates/redact/README.md
index 2caf067b5b..cca3d51fdc 100644
--- a/crates/redact/README.md
+++ b/crates/redact/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ clear_marks(&mut doc, None)?;                        // remove marks without app
 - **images**: fully covered → removed; partly covered → a copy with the covered pixels cleared
   (8/16-bit and 1/2/4-bit images, image masks; Flate/LZW/RL/A85/AHx). Codecs PdfCraft can't
   re-encode (DCT, JPX, JBIG2, CCITT) are removed whole (fail-closed); inline images under an
-  area are removed. Images with separate `/SMask` or `/Mask` data are removed whole;
+  area are removed. Images with separate `/SMask` or `/Mask` data, and images whose data decodes
+  to more than twice their declared raster (plus a byte per row and 4 KiB), are removed whole;
   cleared copies drop `/Alternates` so alternate pixels cannot survive;
 - **vectors**: covered paths are removed; partly covered paths and shadings are clipped so
   nothing paints inside the areas;
@@ -31,8 +32,13 @@ clear_marks(&mut doc, None)?;                        // remove marks without app
   page as a `/PCMark /Redaction` stream.
 
 A verification pass re-reads each redacted page and fails the operation if any glyph or inline
-image is still under an area. Content that can't be decoded makes the operation fail rather than
-leave it unredacted. A Redact annotation with neither a usable `/QuadPoints` array nor a usable
+image is still under an area. It checks every content stream the page had, whatever its
+dictionary calls it; only the overlay streams this `apply` added (`Report::overlays`) are skipped.
+Text is placed with the font and size set by `Tf` or by an ExtGState's `/Font` through `gs`, and a
+form XObject starts from the text state of the content that draws it. Content that can't be
+decoded makes the operation fail rather than leave it unredacted, and so does an inline image the
+renderer's tokenizer reads no image for (`RedactError::Unreadable`): where the page's operators
+resume after it would be a guess. A Redact annotation with neither a usable `/QuadPoints` array nor a usable
 `/Rect` makes it fail with `RedactError::UnreadableMark` before anything changes, instead of
 skipping that mark. The count covers the marks on the pages being applied.
 
@@ -50,15 +56,19 @@ as Sanitize drops them, so a full rewrite of a tagged PDF can't keep a removed c
 A tree where that can't be done (an element written in place, or one too large to walk) makes
 `apply` fail with `RedactError::Tags` rather than leave the annotation reachable.
 
-Replacement descriptions are removed only from marked-content spans changed by cleanup.
-Unchanged spans retain their descriptions; unused property entries are retired during redaction
+Replacement descriptions (`/Alt`, `/ActualText`, `/E`) are removed from marked-content spans
+changed by cleanup, from every structure element above them (found through both `/P` and `/K`),
+and from elements that lose an annotation reference, which also lose `/T`. An element written in
+place above one whose descriptions go makes `apply` fail with `RedactError::Tags`. Unchanged
+spans retain their descriptions; unused property entries are retired during redaction
 and hidden-content cleanup, including aliases in shared/inherited resources. Descriptions still
 used by surviving pages or forms are kept.
 
 A redacted page that inherits `/Resources` from the page tree gets them pinned (by reference;
 a direct inherited dictionary is made one shared object first) before it is rewritten. The parent's
 `/Resources` is then retired unless another page still inherits it, so it cannot keep a removed
-XObject reachable. Pages that aren't redacted are left untouched.
+XObject reachable. Surviving form XObjects lose the resource entries for removed XObjects their own
+content doesn't draw, for the same reason. Pages that aren't redacted are left untouched.
 
 ## Remove hidden information / Sanitize