Redax Pro

• 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 older versions of Redax.
• Find and mark lists of words and phrases for redaction, including words and phrases that break across lines.
• Supports Redax mark-up tools as well as standard PDF text mark-ups (highlight, underline and cross out / strikethrough) and rectangle annotations for selecting images.
• Full Page and multi-page redaction options.
  
  
  

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

• Exemption code palettes are fully customizable
• Includes built-in exemption codes for the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and US Privacy Act
• Optionally place exemption codes at the bottom of the page
• Optionally, use selective “redaction by category” capabilities to create different redacted versions from the same work document.

• 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

• Desktop Application: Not a plug-in for Acrobat.
• Change All Exemption Codes: Globally change exemption codes to a different code. Very useful for making changes after an internal review of a document.
• Stamp: Add permanent text to documents. For example add disclaimers and release dates to redacted documents before sending them to a requester or posting them to a website.
• Search: Search through an open document to find individual words or phrases then click the Create button to mark for redaction.
• Export Page Images: Export single pages to images (png, jpeg or tiff)

What is Redax Pro?
Redax Pro is a standalone Windows application for the purpose of redacting PDF documents. It does not require an Acrobat installation.

How does Redax Pro differ from Redax?
The Redax product is a plug-in to Acrobat. All of the Redax menu items exist under
a single Redax menu in Acrobat. Redax users are executing the Redax tools inside the
Acrobat application. 

The Redax Pro application was built as a standalone application to provide viewing of PDF pages and functions specific to the redaction process. 

Because it is a complete application, its functions are spread across more 
than one menu item. Keyboard shortcuts for commonly used functions are present. For
example, Ctrl-R will redact the currently open document.  

The preferences are all present in a single dialog, with tabs for each subset,
Options, Redaction Properties, and default values for Redax boxes.

Redax Pro provides a Welcome window which serves as a list of recently visited files.

Exemption codes are accessed from a list in the document window, rather than as floating
palettes.

Redax Pro includes the ability to stamp permanent text into PDF files. For example adding disclaimers and release dates to final redacted documents.

How are Redax Pro and Redax similar?
Both products provide the same base set of dialogs, e.g., Find Using List, Find Using
Pattern, etc. The dialogs look and act the same in both products. 

The code used to find text to be redacted is common to both products.

Where possible, keyboard shortcuts are the same between the two products. For example,
preferences are invoked via Ctrl-K. Document properties are invoked via Ctrl-D.

The redaction workflow in Redax Pro is the same as in Redax. Setting preferences,
marking up the document to be redacted, redacting and saving happen in both products.

Windows 10 and higher

See the Redax Pro Users Guide for complete documentation.

See the Redax Pro Getting Started Guide for a tutorial on using Redax Pro

For Accessibility information, please see our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and Adobe’s Voluntary Product Accessibility Template.