pdf-redactor | general purpose PDF text-layer redaction tool | Document Editor library

by JoshData Python Version: Current License: CC0-1.0

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pdf-redactor is a Python library typically used in Editor, Document Editor applications. pdf-redactor has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

A general-purpose PDF text-layer redaction tool, in pure Python, by Joshua Tauberer and Antoine McGrath. pdf-redactor uses [pdfrw] under the hood to parse and write out the PDF.

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pdf-redactor has a low active ecosystem.

It has 148 star(s) with 51 fork(s). There are 6 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 18 open issues and 4 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 58 days. There are 1 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

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pdf-redactor is licensed under the CC0-1.0 License. This license is Permissive.

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Build a text layer .
Initialize from a CMap object .
Update text layer based on provided text layer .
Update PDF metadata .
Tokenize a PDF stream .
Read image data .
Redact the PDF .
Update the XMP metadata .
Convert a Unicode string to Unicode .
Update an annotation .

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Python PDF-Redactor only partially mask content

Editing PDF metadata fields with Python3 and pdfrw

pdf-redactor syntax for URL replacement

QUESTION

Python PDF-Redactor only partially mask content

Asked 2020-Apr-15 at 21:12

I'm using the python PDF redactor and it works great: https://github.com/JoshData/pdf-redactor

The syntax for masking content as specified in the github looks like this, where the regex is the pattern to find and the X's in the lambda expression is the string to replace the found patterns with:

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Answered 2020-Apr-15 at 21:12

You may re-group the patterns to capture what you need to keep, and make use of the match data object, m:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61238609

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Editing PDF metadata fields with Python3 and pdfrw

Asked 2019-May-21 at 07:43

I'm trying to edit the metadata Title field of PDFs, to include the ASCII equivalents when possible. I'm using Python3 and the module pdfrw.

How can I do string operations that replace the metadata fields?

My test code is here:

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ANSWER

Answered 2019-May-21 at 07:42

You have to use the .decode() method on the metadata fields:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56233416

QUESTION

pdf-redactor syntax for URL replacement

Asked 2019-Feb-23 at 07:33

Using https://github.com/JoshData/pdf-redactor if I provide a PDF with multiple URL links and use the example code:

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Answered 2019-Feb-23 at 07:33

Actually you can do a lot with that lambda in that lib. In this specific case you gave us, anything you insert in that function will have https://www.google.com as and output.

But if you want to make something different from that you can use either the URL (href) or the annotation (or both!) as parameters to change the URLs in the document. I will present to you a way you can change multiple URLs at once:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54838533

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Install pdf-redactor

You can download it from GitHub.
You can use pdf-redactor like any standard Python library. You will need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, and git installed. Make sure that your pip, setuptools, and wheel are up to date. When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid changes to the system.

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