Safeguard Sensitive Information with Redaction
Redact sensitive, confidential, and privileged information. Comply with GDPR standards and other privacy laws by permanently removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from PDF documents.
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See It in Action
* Follow our guide to build out your own UI.
* Follow our guide to build out your own UI.
How It Works
Permanent Data Removal
Redaction in PDFs is a two-step process. First, you mark the content you wish to remove with redaction annotations. Second, you apply the redaction annotations, permanently removing the content from the marked regions.
Mark Content
Your users can manually select content, or you can build a custom redaction template to mark areas for redaction. Enable built-in or add custom text-matching patterns as search criteria to quickly locate specific data.
Preview Redaction Annotations
Enable your users to preview the redactions on a document or share a document containing redaction annotations with other stakeholders before changes are applied.
Apply Redaction Annotations
Apply redactions programmatically or at the tap of a button to permanently and securely remove data from a document.
Select Content to Redact
Select the information to be removed from the document. Users can do this manually, or you can use the API to find all data matching a specific pattern, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, or email addresses.
Adjust the Style
By default, redactions appear as a black box, but they can be fully customized with options for color and replacement text.
Comment and Approve
Before changes are applied, the redaction annotations can be commented on and sent to other stakeholders using the Replies component (if licensed).
Commit Redaction
By applying the changes, the redacted data will be permanently and securely removed from the document.
Select Content to Redact
Select the information to be removed from the document. Users can do this manually, or you can use the API to find all data matching a specific pattern, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, or email addresses.
Adjust the Style
By default, redactions appear as a black box, but they can be fully customized with options for color and replacement text.
Comment and Approve
Before changes are applied, the redaction annotations can be commented on and sent to other stakeholders using the (if licensed).
Commit Redaction
By applying the changes, the redacted data will be permanently and securely removed from the document.
advantages
Give Your Users More
Complete control over creating and applying redactions through the API
Rapidly process redactions across large batches of PDFs with PSPDFKit Server
Prebuilt UI for selecting, customizing, and applying redactions
Rapidly process redactions across large batches of PDFs
Ensured compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other privacy laws
workflow
From Manual to Automated
Manual
Easily build a confirmation UI to enable your users to create and apply redactions via the text and area redaction tools.
Semi-Automatic
Efficiently apply multiple redactions through text, built-in search patterns, or custom REGEX with our search API.
Semi-Automatic
Efficiently apply multiple redactions through the model and annotation APIs.
Automatic
Batch create and process redaction annotations by building a redaction shape and applying it to large groups of documents.