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Creating and Using Custom Redaction Patterns

By Rick Borstein

Acrobat 9 introduced several new redaction enhancements, including pattern-based redaction. Using this feature, it is easy to find and redact:

• Social Security Numbers
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Dates
• Credit card numbers

The five "patterns" listed above are not very comprehensive, especially if you are Canadian!

There is no out-of-the-box there is no support for Canadian Social Insurance Numbers and Postal Codes.

Fortunately, it is possible to add your own patterns with a bit of work. In this article, I'll discuss how to create and add your own patterns.

If that's too geeky for you, at the very end I've included an already customized Redaction pattern file that is ready to go for Canada.

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).