Decoding and Editing

decoding

The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text.
- usage: "a secret key or password is required for decryption"
- synonyms: decryption, decipherment

editing

Putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form.
- synonyms: redaction

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- usage: "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
- synonyms: edit, redact
Supervise the publication of.
- usage: "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
- synonyms: edit
Cut and assemble the components of.
- usage: "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
- synonyms: edit, cut, edit out
Cut or eliminate.
- usage: "she edited the juiciest scenes"
- synonyms: edit, blue-pencil, delete

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Edit.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary