Annotation redactions

Remove annotations (comments etc)

You can use GroupDocs.Redaction to remove all or specific comments and other annotations from the document. For example, we can remove all comments from the document, containing texts like “use”, “show” or “describe” in its body:

const redaction = require('@groupdocs/groupdocs.redaction');

const redactor = new redaction.Redactor('annotated_sample.xlsx');
try 
{
    redactor.apply(new redaction.DeleteAnnotationRedaction('(?im:(use|show|describe))'));
const options = new redaction.SaveOptions();
    options.setAddSuffix(true);
    options.setRasterizeToPDF(false);
    redactor.save(options);
}
finally {
  redactor.close();
}

You can use constructor without arguments to remove all annotations within the document.

Redact annotations

Instead of removing all or specific annotations, you can remove sensitive data from the annotation text. For instance, we can remove all mentions of “John” in the given document, e.g.:

const redaction = require('@groupdocs/groupdocs.redaction');

const redactor = new redaction.Redactor('annotated_sample.xlsx');
try 
{
    redactor.apply(new redaction.AnnotationRedaction('(?im:john)', '[redacted]'));
const options = new redaction.SaveOptions();
    options.setAddSuffix(true);
    options.setRasterizeToPDF(false);
    redactor.save(options);
}
finally {
  redactor.close();
}