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redact - pattern

Jul 6, 2012 7:26 AM

I want to define my own text patterns for redaction with Adobe Pro X (using Win 7). The text patterns option is found under Tools/Protection/Search and Remove Text.

 

Following Web page has related pictures and a link but no help info:

http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-9-search-redact-patterns.htm l

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  • George Johnson
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    1. George Johnson,
    Jul 8, 2012 5:52 PM   in reply to drop box
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    Have you tried editing the SearchRedactPatterns.xml file, using the existing entries as a guide? What patterns would you like to add?

     
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    Jul 9, 2012 6:22 AM   in reply to George Johnson
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    I have found the file named SearchRedactPatterns.xml (thank you) and I just started trying to make sense the code defining text pattern. (I also need to get rights to modify this file - it's locked.)

     

    I want to add a pattern that fits a pair of numbers (latitude and longitude). The pattern is always a pair, comma and space separate the pair, second number preceeded by negative sign. There are two digits before the decimal point. The number of digits after the decimal points will change - so I guess I define more than one pattern - but even with a single, new pattern fitting the example below, I would have saved myself work and saved myself time.

     

    Example pattern:

     

    36.63, -82.551

     
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    3. George Johnson,
    Jul 9, 2012 10:01 AM   in reply to drop box
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    I haven't tried adding a new pattern yet, but it looks like you should be able to just create a single regular expression for that pattern. If you need more help, and I try it later today.

     
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    Jul 9, 2012 11:03 AM   in reply to drop box
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    I found a website that explains text searches usin regular expressions (RegEx) -

    http://www.Regular-Expressions.info/

     

    Looks like the RegEx code at this "info" website is similar to the text pattern code in the Adobe xml file (SearchRedactPatterns.xml).

     

    I need to match and redact a Lat. and Long. coordinate pair such as:

    36.63, -82.551               (fixed length)

    36.6nnn, -82.5nnnnn       (variable length)

     

    I want to try my code (untested code - don't know if it is correct), first matching a fixed length pair, second matching variable-length :

     

    <val>(\d\d.\d\d\,\ \-\d\d\.\d\d\d\)</val>

    <val>(\d\d\.\[0-9][0-9]{0,4}\,\ \-\d\d\.\[0-9][0-9]{0,6})</val>

     
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    5. George Johnson,
    Jul 9, 2012 11:57 AM   in reply to drop box
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    That second one should be:

     

    <val>(\d{2}\.\d{0,4}, \-\d{2}\.\d{0,6})</val>

     

    Go ahead and try it out.

     

    Edit: fixed mistake

     
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