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GroupDocs.Redactions prodives a set of features to redact data of sensitive nature from images of various formats like JPG, PNG, TIFF and others. See full list at supported document formats article.

GroupDocs.Redaction since version 21.3 supports two ways of redacting images, both in separate image files and embedded images:

• You can put a colored box over a given area, such as header, footer, or an area, where customer’s data are expected to appear.
• You can use any 3-rd party OCR engine to process the image, search it for text and redact sensitive data within the image.

GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET also allows you to change image metadata (e.g. edit EXIF data of an image or act as an “EXIF eraser”).

In order to redact image area, you have to use ImageAreaRedaction class:

C#

using (Redactor redactor = new Redactor("D:\\test.jpg"))
{
   System.Drawing.Point samplePoint = new System.Drawing.Point(516, 311);
   System.Drawing.Size sampleSize = new System.Drawing.Size(170, 35);
   RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.Apply(new ImageAreaRedaction(samplePoint,
                new RegionReplacementOptions(System.Drawing.Color.Blue, sampleSize)));
   if (result.Status != RedactionStatus.Failed)
   {
      redactor.Save();
   };
}

If the redaction cannot be applied to this type of files, e.g. MS Word document without embedded images, RedactorChangeLog.Status will be RedactionStatus.Skipped.

To enable OCR-processing and search for a text using regular expressions, you have to implement IOcrConnector interface and pass the instance to RedactorSettings constructor. For more details, see OCR Usage Basics article.

C#

using (Redactor redactor = new Redactor("D:\\test.jpg", new LoadOptions(), new RedactorSettings(new MyCustomOcrConnector())))
{
   RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.Apply(new RegexRedaction("\\d{4}", new ReplacementOptions(System.Drawing.Color.Blue)));
   if (result.Status != RedactionStatus.Failed)
   {
      redactor.Save();
   };
}

In the example above MyCustomOcrConnector class implements IOcrConnector interface.

The following example demonstrates how to edit exif data (erase them) from a photo or any other image:

C#

using (Redactor redactor = new Redactor("D:\\photo.jpg"))
{
    redactor.Apply(new EraseMetadataRedaction(MetadataFilters.All));
    // Save the document to "*_Redacted.*" file in original format
    redactor.Save(new SaveOptions() { AddSuffix = true, RasterizeToPDF = false });
}

If the redaction cannot be applied to this type of files, e.g. BMP image, RedactorChangeLog.Status will be RedactionStatus.Skipped.

You can redact image area within all kinds of embedded images inside a document. You can both use ImageAreaRedaction class and any type of TextRedaction (regular expression, exact phrase), if the OCR is enabled in RedactorSettings (see OCR Usage Basics article).

The following example demonstrates how to redact all embedded images within a Microsoft Word document:

C#

using (Redactor redactor = new Redactor("D:\\sample.docx"))
{
   System.Drawing.Point samplePoint = new System.Drawing.Point(516, 311);
   System.Drawing.Size sampleSize = new System.Drawing.Size(170, 35);
   RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.Apply(new ImageAreaRedaction(samplePoint,
                new RegionReplacementOptions(System.Drawing.Color.Blue, sampleSize)));
   if (result.Status != RedactionStatus.Failed)
   {
      redactor.Save();
   };
}

If the redaction cannot be applied to this type of files, e.g. a spreadsheet document, RedactorChangeLog.Status will be RedactionStatus.Skipped.

You can remove frames from a multi-frame image with a given origin and frame count. For additional information look at remove page redactions article.

Some image formats, such as DjVu documents, require pre-rasterization and further saving in PDF format.

To learn more about document redaction features, please refer to the advanced usage section.

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET examples

• GroupDocs.Redaction for Java examples

Along with full featured .NET library we provide simple, but powerful free Apps.

You are welcome to perform redactions for various document formats like PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, Emails and more with our free online Free Online Document Redaction App.