diff --git a/crates/redact/README.md b/crates/redact/README.md
index eb3bce469e..0db0e18c49 100644
--- a/crates/redact/README.md
+++ b/crates/redact/README.md
@@ -34,14 +34,24 @@ clear_marks(&mut doc, None)?;                        // remove marks without app
   part of it as whole words (three letters or digits at least), and the catalog's and pages'
   XMP streams whose text (element content, attribute values other than `xmlns` declarations,
   comments and processing instructions, entities decoded) contains it or has a value wholly
-  part of it, removed whole, together with any PDF/A identification in that packet. XMP that
-  isn't valid UTF-8 or UTF-16 goes too, and when the removed text was too much to collect
-  every `/Info` string and every XMP stream goes (fail-closed). The removed glyphs' text is
-  collected in runs by position (character and word spacing included, so letter-spaced text
-  stays one word), and each run (two or more letters or digits) and each of its words of three
-  or more are matched without regard to case or spacing. A value that shares only words of one
-  or two letters with the removed text, and isn't wholly part of it, stays: Sanitize's
-  metadata category removes the rest. `Report::metadata` counts what went.
+  part of it, removed whole, together with any PDF/A identification in that packet. The removed
+  glyphs' text is collected in runs by position (character and word spacing included, so
+  letter-spaced text stays one word), and each run (two or more letters or digits) and each of
+  its words of three or more are matched without regard to case or spacing. A value that shares
+  only words of one or two letters with the removed text, and isn't wholly part of it, stays:
+  Sanitize's metadata category removes the rest. `Report::metadata` counts what went.
+  - **Fail-closed.** When the check can't know what the removed text was, every `/Info`
+    string and every catalog and page XMP stream goes: more than 100,000 runs or a run over
+    64 KiB removed (the collection limit); a removed glyph whose text isn't known (no
+    `/ToUnicode` or encoding gives it); a form XObject removed without being read, because it
+    is nested past the depth limit (`MAX_DEPTH`, 50) or its content can't be read; or more
+    than 20,000 terms, or a run longer than 4,096 characters, to search for. Once the
+    search's work limit (2^28 steps) runs out, every entry and packet not yet checked goes
+    too. An XMP packet that isn't valid UTF-8 or UTF-16, can't be decoded, or decodes to
+    more than 16 MiB goes without being read.
+  - **Not scrubbed** (Sanitize's categories cover them): XMP streams on anything but the
+    catalog and the pages (images, fonts, form XObjects, annotations and other objects),
+    bookmark titles, and attachments (embedded files, their names and descriptions).
 
 A verification pass re-reads each redacted page and fails the operation if any glyph or inline
 image is still under an area. It checks every content stream the page had, whatever its