How do you programmatically redact PDF FIles?

Question

Adobe Acrobat has the ability to redact PDF files (that is, actually remove the information, rather than simply drawing a black box on top of it). I would like to use this f

Answer 1

Within Adobe Acrobat you may be able to do this through the use of an ActionScript that can be invoked on a number of different events.

If you would like to do this in a seperate application there are a number of different tools in a variety of platforms that can create and manipulate PDF documents, although I have yet to find a feature rich open source library that can even come close to some of these offerings.

http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.pdf-for-.net/default.aspx

http://www.aspose.com/categories/java-components/aspose.pdf-for-java/default.aspx

http://itextpdf.com/

iText is my personal favorite and worth every penny.