Redact a PDF document in Node.js

To redact content from a PDF document.

async function main() {
    const rarr = []; // we will contain a list of redaction objects in this array
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(1, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(100, 100, 550, 600)), false, 'Top Secret'));
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(2, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(30, 30, 450, 450)), true, 'Negative Redaction'));
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(2, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(0, 0, 100, 100)), false, 'Positive'));
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(2, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(100, 100, 200, 200)), false, 'Positive'));
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(2, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(300, 300, 400, 400)), false, ''));
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(2, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(500, 500, 600, 600)), false, ''));
    rarr.push(await PDFNet.Redactor.redactionCreate(3, (await PDFNet.Rect.init(0, 0, 700, 20)), false, ''));

    const app = {};
    app.redaction_overlay = true;
    app.border = false;
    app.show_redacted_content_regions = true;

    const doc = await PDFNet.PDFDoc.createFromURL(filename);
    PDFNet.Redactor.redact(doc, rarr, app, false, false);
}
PDFNet.runWithCleanup(main);

Apryse 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 hidden with clipping or image masks. Apryse SDK 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.

The redaction process in Apryse SDK consists of two steps:

1. 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.

2. Content removal
Using ‘pdftron.PDF.Redactor.Redact()’ the user instructs Apryse SDK 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.).