Text Redaction or Sanitization is the process of removing the confidential or unwanted text or information from digital documents while leaving intact the rest of the document or paragraph containing it. Redaction helps users as well as organization to protect their sensitive information by hiding or permanently removing them. Using GroupDocs.Redaction Java API users can now redact, hide or remove sensitive text from word processing documents, worksheets, presentations, PDF and raster image files. The API provides a wide range of options and methods for the redaction of private information in the documents. It supports search and redact using regular expressions, usage of textual (exemption codes) or graphical (colored rectangles) redactions and many more. So why not give it a try and automate your document redaction process by downloading the API and explore its basic and advanced features.
GroupDocs.Redaction allows to easily redact data of sensitive or private nature from your documents. The most popular redaction case is to remove a text from a document.
The following code can be used to apply textual redaction to a particular part of a document using regular expression. It allows users to replace all numbers, matching pattern “AA BB CCCCCC” with a Blue color rectangle,
| // For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-search/GroupDocs.Redaction-for-Java | |
| //Load document | |
| Document doc = Redactor.load(Utilities.mapSourceFilePath(FilePath)); | |
| // Perform regular expression redaction | |
| doc.redactWith(new RegexRedaction("\\d{2}\\s*\\d{2}[^\\d]*\\d{6}", new ReplacementOptions(java.awt.Color.BLUE))); | |
| // Save the document in original format and overwriting original file | |
| SaveOptions so = new SaveOptions(); | |
| so.setAddSuffix(false); | |
| so.setRasterizeToPDF(false); | |
| doc.save(so); | |
| doc.close(); |
GroupDocs.Redaction for Java APIs are supported on all major platforms and operating systems. For complete system requirements guide, please visit system requirements Before executing the code below, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites installled on your system:
Files with DOTX extension are template files created by Microsoft Word to have pre-formatted settings for generation of further DOCX files. A template file is created in order to have specific user settings that should be applied to subsequent flies created from these. These settings include page margins, borders, headers, footers, and other page settings. Such templates are used in official documents such as company letterheads and standardized forms.
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