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Redaction is to hide or remove confidential text before publication or distribution.  It’s an essential step to guard personally identifiable information.  

  

Not doing so can lead to costly compliance risks for organization  This is an essential process across all bodies of government and commercial institutions.  

  

It's especially important in the medical and legal fields.   Millions of documents are redacted everyday by armies of people, who are prone to error.  Automating this task can save millions of hours, improve accuracy, reduce risk exposure, and reduce the time required to safely publish requested documents.  
  
Current Challenges to redaction are:

*   Mistakes can lead to **costly compliance risks**
*   Lack of **Awareness** of redaction protocols
*   Manual, Tedious, and **Error Prone**
*   **Time-Consuming** even with Desktop Software
*   **Batch** Processing is not readily available
*   **Wastes** lots of Paper (Environmental Impact)

Custom activity to redact PDF Documents without the use of any third party software. It locates and irreversibly redacts confidential text, then outputs a fully redacted PDF document.

Custom activity for PDF redaction without the use of any third party software. It locates and irreversibly redacts confidential text in a PDF, producing a fully redacted document.

Version	Release Date	Download Link
1.0.63	September 1, 2020
Minor Bug Fixes
1.0.51	July 13, 2020
FileOutput Parameter can be set by user or left back and automatically set by the activity into a newly created folder within the directory of the input file. Compatibility with UiPath version 2020.4
1.0.0	July 10, 2020
Initial Release
1.0.0	July 10, 2020
Initial Release

PDF Redactor