That's a really good point...
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:34:18 -0700 (PDT), "Leonard Rosenthol-3 [via iText
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General]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
> From: sesshomurai <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Reply-To: Post here
>
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:22:26 -0700
> To: Post here
>
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> 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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