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GroupDocs.Redaction provides features to redact sensitive data from images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, and others). See the full list in Supported document formats.

You can redact images both as separate files and as embedded images inside documents:

• Put a colored box over a given area (header, footer, or a region where customer data appears).
• Use a third-party OCR engine to search text on the image and redact matches.

You can also change image metadata (for example edit EXIF or act as an “EXIF eraser”) where the format exposes metadata.

For multi-page or layout-aware scenarios, combine image-area redaction with page filters (PageRangeFilter, PageAreaFilter). Coordinates follow the page (or visible image) placement when the bitmap size differs from the on-page shape.

In order to redact image area, you have to use ImageAreaRedaction class:

Java

final Redactor redactor  = new Redactor("D:\\test.jpg");
try 
{
    //Define the position on image
    java.awt.Point samplePoint = new java.awt.Point(385, 485);
    //Define the size of the area which need to be redacted
    java.awt.Dimension sampleSize = new java.awt.Dimension(1793, 2069);
    //Perform redaction
    RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.apply(new ImageAreaRedaction(samplePoint,
        new RegionReplacementOptions(java.awt.Color.BLUE, sampleSize)));
    if (result.getStatus() != RedactionStatus.Failed)
    {
       //The redacted output will save as PDF 
       redactor.save();
    };
}
finally { redactor.close(); }

If the redaction cannot be applied to this type of files, e.g. MS Word document without embedded images, RedactorChangeLog.getStatus() will be RedactionStatus.Skipped.

To enable OCR-processing and search for a text using regular expressions, you have to implement IOcrConnector interface and pass the instance to RedactorSettings constructor. For more details, see OCR Usage Basics article.

Java

try (Redactor redactor = new Redactor("D:\\test.jpg", new LoadOptions(), new RedactorSettings(new MyCustomOcrConnector())))
{
   RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.apply(new RegexRedaction("\\d{4}", new ReplacementOptions(java.awt.Color.BLUE)));
   if (result.getStatus() != RedactionStatus.Failed)
   {
      redactor.save();
   };
}

In the example above MyCustomOcrConnector class implements IOcrConnector interface.

GroupDocs.Redaction for Java allows you to change image metadata (e.g. edit EXIF data of an image or act as an “EXIF eraser”).

The following example demonstrates how to edit exif data (erase them) from a photo or any other image:

final Redactor redactor  = new Redactor("D:\\photo.jpg");
try 
{
    RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.apply(new EraseMetadataRedaction(MetadataFilters.All));
    if (result.getStatus() != RedactionStatus.Failed)
    {
       //The redacted output will save as PDF 
       redactor.save();
    };
}
finally { redactor.close(); }

If the redaction cannot be applied to this type of files, e.g. BMP image, RedactorChangeLog.getStatus() will be RedactionStatus.Skipped.

You can redact image area within all kinds of embedded images inside a document. You can both use ImageAreaRedaction class and any type of TextRedaction (regular expression, exact phrase), if the OCR is enabled in RedactorSettings (see OCR Usage Basics article).

The following example demonstrates how to redact all embedded images within a Microsoft Word document:

final Redactor redactor = new Redactor("D:\\sample.docx");
try 
{
    java.awt.Point samplePoint = new java.awt.Point(516, 311);
    java.awt.Dimension sampleSize = new java.awt.Dimension(170, 35);
    RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.apply(new ImageAreaRedaction(samplePoint,
        new RegionReplacementOptions(java.awt.Color.BLUE, sampleSize)));
    if (result.getStatus() != RedactionStatus.Failed)
    {
        redactor.save();
    };
}
finally { redactor.close(); }

If the redaction cannot be applied to this type of files, e.g. a spreadsheet document, RedactorChangeLog.getStatus() will be RedactionStatus.Skipped.

To limit image redaction to a page range or rectangle, set filters on ReplacementOptions or use PageAreaRedaction.

You can remove frames from a multi-frame image with a given origin and frame count. For additional information look at remove page redactions article.

Some image formats, such as DjVu documents, require pre-rasterization and further saving in PDF format.