Redax

Redaction is a daily process for organizations that manage classified, sensitive or private information.

Failures to redact can be costly, as many government agencies, corporations, law firms and others have learned to their chagrin – and cost.

Appligent invented and holds a patent on PDF redaction. “We originally released Redax®, the first software to redact PDF files, back in 1997. Redax completely redacts (removes) text and graphics from the PDF page. Hacking the file cannot reveal properly redacted information.”

Redax 5, released in March 2011, celebrates 14 years of leadership in electronic document security with a major update to the most reliable and capable redaction technology for PDF files. While Adobe includes basic redaction in Acrobat Professional, it’s not as full-featured or workflow-friendly as Redax, nor does Adobe offer a client-server redaction solution like Redax Enterprise Server.

Thousands of national, state and local government agencies, law firms, corporations and institutions world-wide protect sensitive information with Redax everyday.

Redax 5 requires an existing installation of Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional 7, 8.1, 9 or X. Redax will NOT work with the free Adobe Reader.

Redaction Markup

• Advanced patterns allow you to automatically find and mark social security numbers (SSN), ZIP codes, international postal codes, US and international phone numbers, credit card numbers, dates, URLs, email addresses and more
• Support for Regular Expressions allowing you to define your own custom pattern searches
• Markup Engine performs ‘Find Using List’ markup up to 30 times faster than Redax 4.6
• Automatically finds and marks lists of words and phrases for redaction
• Finds words and phrases that break across lines
• Supports Acrobat’s standard text mark-up (highlight, underline and cross out / strikethrough)
• Available Full Page or multi-page redaction options

“We’ve used Redax since 1998, and there’s still no better PDF redacting tool.  What else can I say?”

- Steven L. FOIA Coordinator

• Support for Acrobat 6, 7, 8.1, 9 and X
• Redax works with Adobe Acrobat Standard OR Professional.
• Redax 4.6 works with Acrobat 6, 7, 8, 9.
• Redax 5.0 works with 7, 8.1, 9, X.

Redaction Processing

• Enhanced Redaction Engine
• Automatically preserves the original document
• Safely removes text, graphics and images based on markup
• Redaction from single or multi-page templates
• Appearance of redacted areas is fully customizable
• Optional page consolidation in cases where multiple pages are fully redacted
• Automatic removal of document metadata
• Optionally removes all annotations and bookmarks

Exemption Codes

• Exemption code palettes are fully customizable
• Includes built-in exemption codes for the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act
• Optionally place exemption codes at the bottom of the page
• Optionally, use selective “redaction by category” capabilities

Redaction Workflow Automation

• May be integrated with existing document management systems
• Generates redaction reports to facilitate record keeping
• Supports semi-automated and multi-user FOIA and redaction workflows, including in conjunction with Redax Enterprise Server

Enhanced User Interface

• Expanded toolbar and improved user experience

Redax Documentation

Redax documentation is provided via the installer and online. Additional resources include the Redax Getting Started Guide, Redax FAQs and the ReadMe file.

Redax now available on NMCI Clin23

Redax has been certified by EDS and is available on NMCI; the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI Clin23).

Section 508 Compliance

Appligent Document Solutions is committed to making its client software accessible to persons with disabilities. Our plug-in software uses Adobe Acrobat as a rendering engine and relies on its feature set for presenting content.

Please see our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and Adobe’s Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for more information.

Why Redax is Different

The appearance of redacted areas is fully adjustable 

Advanced Patterns allow you to find and markup text