Automated obscuring of PDF content

Question

Hello

I'm looking for a tool which will allow me to automate the task of obscuring a certain section of content contained within a PDF. The PDF content is essentially one big image which contains some sensitive information, and it is this information we need to ensure is not readable.

Any tips for where I should start looking for such a solution?

Many thanks

M

Answer 1

Safe redacting tools/apis are available widely:

http://www.evermap.com/autoredact.asp

http://www.bravaviewer.com/redaction.htm

http://www.rapidredact.com/ahottopic.asp

Answer 2

Just to say that we ended up using Autoredact from Evermap which turned out to be a very capable product.

It gets even more powerful if you use the document automation routines which Acrobat Pro allows. And you can take it a step further if you use the AutoBatch product from the same guys.

Hopefully this helps anyone in the future searching for the same functionality (probably will be me 3 years later).

M