Putting a black box over something is NOT redaction – the stuff underneath is
still there!! A LOT of government agencies around the world have gotten into
trouble using software that only "covers" stuff but doesn't actually redact.
If you want to write redaction software, then do actual redaction (remove the
data)!!!
Leonard
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:22:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Find/Replace Text in Existing PDF?
That's a great suggestion Kevin. I'll look into it.
So basically, I want to highlight and also redact (place a black box over the
text),
so maybe its doable with some clever coding.
On 07/28/2011 07:04 PM, Kevin Day [via iText - General] wrote:
Don't give up yet!
It is possible to search for a word using the pdf.parser.* API, locate the
ascender and descender of the word, and add a colored rectangle below that
position on the page. If all you want to do is add hi-lighting, then you can
probably do this. If you want to actually change the text, then that's a much,
much harder problem.
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