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RedactorRedaction Class

PDF Redactor is a separately licensable Add-on that offers options to remove (not just covering or obscuring) content within a region of PDF. With printed pages, redaction involves blacking-out or cutting-out areas of the printed page. With electronic documents that use formats such as PDF, redaction typically involves removing sensitive content within documents for safe distribution to courts, patent and government institutions, the media, customers, vendors or any other audience with restricted access to the content.

The redaction process in PDFNet consists of two steps:

a) Content identification: A user applies redact annotations that specify the pieces or regions of content that should be removed. The content for redaction can be identified either interactively (e.g. using 'pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl' as shown in PDFView sample) or programmatically (e.g. using 'pdftron.PDF.TextSearch' or 'pdftron.PDF.TextExtractor'). Up until the next step is performed, the user can see, move and redefine these annotations.

b) Content removal: Using 'pdftron.PDF.Redactor.Redact()' the user instructs PDFNet to apply the redact regions, after which the content in the area specified by the redact annotations is removed. The redaction function includes number of options to control the style of the redaction overlay (including color, text, font, border, transparency, etc.).

PDFTron Redactor makes sure that if a portion of an image, text, or vector graphics is contained in a redaction region, that portion of the image or path data is destroyed and is not simply hidden with clipping or image masks. PDFNet API can also be used to review and remove metadata and other content that can exist in a PDF document, including XML Forms Architecture (XFA) content and Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) content.

Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  pdftron.PDFRedactorRedaction

Namespace:  pdftron.PDF
Assembly:  pdftron (in pdftron.dll) Version: 255.255.255.255
Syntax
public sealed class RedactorRedaction

The RedactorRedaction type exposes the following members.

Constructors
  NameDescription
Public methodRedactorRedaction
Initializes a new instance of the RedactorRedaction class
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Properties
Methods
  NameDescription
Public methodEquals
Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetHashCode
Serves as a hash function for a particular type.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodToString
Returns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
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