GroupDocs.Redaction for Java 21.12 Release Notes
This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Redaction for Java 21.12
Major Features
There are the following improvements in this release:
- Add support for custom PDF metadata
Full List of Issues Covering all Changes in this Release
| Key | Summary | Category |
|---|---|---|
| REDACTIONJAVA-143 | Add support for custom PDF metadata | Improvement |
| REDACTIONJAVA-157 | Small-sized plain text documents fail to be recognized | Bug |
Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes
This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Redaction for Java 21.12. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Redaction which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.
Add support for custom PDF metadata
This improvement allows users to apply redactions to custom XML metadata within PDF files, including metadata of the embedded image resources.
Public API changes
Method getCategory(), returning ID of the embedded resource, has been added to MetadataItem class.
Usage
The following example demonstrates how to remove strings like “/first.last” (e.g. user name in source file paths) from the embedded images metadata of a PDF file.
Java
try (Redactor redactor = new Redactor("FileWithEmbeddedImages.pdf"))
{
RedactorChangeLog result = redactor.apply(new MetadataSearchRedaction(@"/([^\./]+\.[^/]+)", "/redacted"));
if (result.getStatus() != RedactionStatus.Failed)
{
redactor.save(new SaveOptions(false, "Redacted"));
}
}