pdfSweep 5.0.2

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

There are no feature changes for this release. The only changes are to maintain compatibility with the iText Core 9.2.0 dependencies.

pdfSweep 5.0.1

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

This release improves pdfSweep’s handling of overlapping glyphs to produce better results.

We also fixed a bug where invalid data was left after cleanup, and resolved an issue where processed content would render differently in certain viewers.

Improvements

When using overlap ratio in cleanup, calculate it based on single glyph renders to get better results

Bug fixes

Output PDF contains invalid data after cleanup

pdfSweep 5.0.0

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

For this release the version number has been bumped for compatibility with iText Core 9.0 and License Key Library 4.2.0.

pdfSweep 4.0.3

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

This release is just a minor update which improves the handling of unsupported image types.

Improvements

• Better handling of unsupported image types

pdfSweep 4.0.2

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

This release fixes a bug where a NullPointerException could occur in situations where an Image's XObject was directly referenced from the canvas, had an /ImageMask entry with the value true and was completely covered by a cleanup rectangle.

Bug fixes

• NPE on fully filtered Image XObject with /ImageMask true

pdfSweep 4.0.1

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

For this release, the artifact names have been changed to reflect the new naming structure. In addition, since Bouncy Castle is a dependency for tests the .NET version has been updated to use the latest 2.2.1 version.

Improvements

• Updated .NET Bouncy Castle dependency to 2.2.1

pdfSweep 4.0.0

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on for Java to securely redact content from PDFs.

While there are no new changes for this version, this release is for compatibility with the iText Core version 8.x.x release.

pdfSweep 3.0.2

For this release, we've improved the logging for unsupported images. When pdfSweep encounters an image where its file type or encoding is not supported, it will now produce a more detailed exception message.

Improvements

• Improved logging for unsupported images

pdfSweep 2.0.8

This release contains a security fix from the pdfSweep 3.0.0 release relating to the CompareTool functionality. It was previously possible to abuse some functionality in GhostScript to inject arbitrary parameters.

pdfSweep 3.0.1

Some small, yet significant changes for pdfSweep this time round. We’ve made improvements and additions to the API documentation for CompositeCleanupStrategy, RegexBasedCleanupStrategy, CleanUpLogMessageConstant, PdfCleanUpEventListener, PdfCleanUpProcessor, and PdfCleanUpTool.

We’ve also updated the commons-imaging dependency to a stable version from the snapshot that was previously used.

Improvements

• API documentation improvements
• Switch pdfSweep commons-imaging dependency to stable version