What is Redax?
Protect and secure sensitive information in PDF files
Keep sensitive and private information in your PDF files protected from unwanted exposure
Whether you manage classified, confidential, or private information every day, firsthand you need a secure and complete writing process that easily, consistently and securely removes sensitive text and graphics. A failure can cause costly and dangerous consequences, not only for organizations, but also for people whose privacy or security protects them.
Characteristics
Essay marking
- Advanced standards allow you to automatically find and mark social security numbers (SSN), postal codes, international zip codes, U.S. 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
- The Markup Engine performs the 'Find using List' markup up to 30 times faster than previous versions of Redax.
- Automatically finds and marks lists of words and phrases for writing
- Find words and phrases that cross lines
- Supports acrobat's default text tagging (highlight, underline, and scratch/erased)
- Full-page or multiple-page writing options available
Writing processing
- Improved writing mechanism
- Automatically preserves the original document
- Securely removes text, graphics, and images based on markup
- Writing templates of one or more pages
- Appearance of edited areas is fully customizable
- Optional page consolidation in cases where multiple pages are fully edited
- Automatic removal of document metadata
- Optionally removes all annotations and bookmarks
- Optionally, condense fully redacted pages.
- Write documents based on assigned categories
- Write the marked documents.
Exemption codes
- Exemption code palettes are fully customizable
- Includes internal waiver codes for the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act
- Optionally, place the waiver codes at the bottom of the page
- Optionally, use selective "essay by category" features
Writing workflow automation
- Can be integrated with existing document management systems
- Generates writing reports for easy record keeping
- Supports semi-automatic and multi-user replication workflows and FOIA, including in conjunction with Redax Enterprise Server
Improved user interface
Expanded toolbar and better user experience
System requirements:
- Windows 7 or higher
- Redax 5.6 is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 9, X and XI, both Standard and Professional
- Redax 5.7 is compatible with Adobe Acrobat DC
- Redax 5.8 is compatible with Adobe Acrobat XI, DC, and 2017
- Redax is not compatible with free Adobe Reader.
