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Regular Expressions: Creating Custom Patterns for Redaction

Redax includes 23 built in patterns to find and mark text for redaction, including Social Security numbers, different date formats, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and more. To see all the available patterns, just go to the Redax menu and select Find Using Pattern. However, if you need a different pattern search than those provided, you […]

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How to Use Built In Pattern Redaction in Redax

Redax  includes a variety of built in patterns to find and mark text for redaction.  Standard patterns include Social Security numbers, different date formats, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and more. To see all the available patterns, just go to the Redax menu and select Find Using Pattern. You can choose from a list of 23 […]

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Flubbed Redaction Makes Headlines…Again

Some secrets are trivial, some are critical. It’s probably a matter of perspective, but failing to redact key information from sensitive military memos on nuclear submarine operations would tend to fit most definitions of “critical”. Ignorance of basic realities about computers and the lack of proper procedures for releasing information is a toxic combination for […]

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Tip: How Not to Worry about PDF Metadata

We get this question a lot, especially from our legal customers: “How do we avoid creating PDFs that contain potentially harmful, embarrassing or confidential metadata?” THE ANSWER: Stop creating metadata in the first place, or delete it all before delivery, there’s help either way. PDF metadata can include information such as a drafting title, file-name, […]

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Redacting with Acrobat 8 Professional vs. Redax

One of the new features in Acrobat 8.0 Professional garnering significant comment is redaction. This handy tool allowing users to permanently eliminate text or graphics from a PDF page. Solid, simple idea – what’s not to like? Thus far, Acrobat 8’s redaction tool has been generally well received in principle, although a few discriminating reviewers […]

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