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In the example below, we apply textual redaction, replacing personal exact phrase “John Doe” with “[personal]” (or any exemption code):
final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("sample.docx");
try
{
redactor.apply(new ExactPhraseRedaction("John Doe", new ReplacementOptions("[personal]")));
redactor.save();
}
finally { redactor.close(); }
By default, search for exact phase is case insensitive.For a case-sensitive redaction, there is a constructor parameter and corresponding public property:
final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("sample.docx");
try
{
redactor.apply(new ExactPhraseRedaction("John Doe", true /*isCaseSensitive*/, new ReplacementOptions("[personal]")));
redactor.save();
}
finally { redactor.close(); }
If you need a color box over the redacted text, you can use color instead of replacement string. The redaction will erase matched text and put a rectangle of the specified color in place of redacted text:
final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("sample.docx");
try
{
redactor.apply(new ExactPhraseRedaction("John Doe", new ReplacementOptions(java.awt.Color.RED)));
redactor.save();
}
finally { redactor.close(); }
You might need to apply redaction to a right-to-left document, such as Arabic or Hebrew. The following example demonstrates how to apply ExactPhraseRedaction to an Arabic PDF document:
final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("Arabic.pdf");
try
{
ExactPhraseRedaction red = new ExactPhraseRedaction("أﺑﺠﺪ", new ReplacementOptions("[test]"));
red.setRightToLeft(true);
redactor.apply(red);
redactor.save();
}
finally { redactor.close(); }
Behind the scenes, “exact phrase” redaction works though regular expressions, which are the baseline approach for redaction. In the example below, we redact out any text, matching “2 digits, space or nothing, 2 digits, again space and 6 digits” with a blue color box:
final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("sample.docx");
try
{
redactor.apply(new RegexRedaction("\\d{2}\\s*\\d{2}[^\\d]*\\d{6}", new ReplacementOptions(java.awt.Color.BLUE)));
SaveOptions saveOptions = new SaveOptions();
saveOptions.setAddSuffix(true);
saveOptions.setRasterizeToPDF(false);
redactor.save(saveOptions);
}
finally { redactor.close(); }
If you need to apply redact a whole paragraph, you might also need to use RegexRedaction. The following example demonstrates how to redact the whole paragraph in a PDF document:
final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("LoremIpsum.pdf");
try
{
redactor.apply(new RegexRedaction("(Lorem(\n|.)+?urna)", new ReplacementOptions("[test]")));
SaveOptions saveOptions = new SaveOptions();
saveOptions.setAddSuffix(true);
saveOptions.setRasterizeToPDF(false);
redactor.save(saveOptions);
}
finally { redactor.close(); }
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