What you need is redaction. Redaction is a VERY complex process and not something easily built using iText or other similar libraries.
There are, however, various commercial solutions that can do this job... Leonard On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Alex Wibowo wrote: > Gday, > > > I have a PDF with some sensitive information in it. I was thinking > of putting white box on top of this location. But I find out later > that the white box can be removed by simply opening the PDF in > Acrobat Designer. (or even simpler, do a text highlight & drag over > the overlapped texts, then copy & paste) > > What is the best way to achieve what I want? I tried to do form > flattening, but obviously it wasnt designed for that purpose > (flattenign the over content). > > > -- > Best regards, > > > WiB > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/_______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
