Thursday, April 28, 2011

Acrobat -- Batch Redact Credit Card Numbers


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Works exactly like my Batch Redact Social Security Numbers script, only with Credit Card numbers.

The script will redact the following patterns:
  • 999999999999
  • 9999 9999 9999
  • 9999-9999-9999 (or with any other punctuation marks)

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Batch Redact Social Security Numbers


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Note: I have also created a version of this tool for redacting Canadian Social Insurance Numbers (SIN), which can be purchased here, as well as a version that redacts British National Insurance Numbers (NI or NINO), which can be purchased here.
If your country uses a different format, contact me for a custom-made version. All the scripts cost the same, $30 only per license.

Social Security Numbers are sensitive information that should often be removed permanently from PDF files.
The only secure way of doing that is with the Redaction tool, which has an option for selecting SSN's. However, this option can't be used in a batch process, so if you want to apply this to multiple files you will need to do them one by one.

With this tool you can easily remove SSN's from multiple files with a single click, using a Batch Process (aka Action, in Acrobat X).
It offers a choice between just marking the suspected SSN's (to be reviewed manually and applied later) or marking AND deleting them at the same time.

As an extra bonus, it comes will a handy menu item to Search and Redact SSN's with a single click, not having to go through Acrobat's built-in menus, which can come in handy if you do it often.
You can use these menu items even in Acrobat Standard, where batch processing is not possible.

The script will redact the following patterns:
  • 999999999
  • 999 99 9999
  • 999-99-9999 (or with any other punctuation marks)

A PDF with several SSN's in it (the text was taken from the Wikipedia page about Social Security Numbers).

The script can be run in a "Mark and Ask" mode, in which the user is prompted whether or not to apply the redactions.


The highlighted SSN's created by the script (in the manual mode):


The result of running the batch process in "Mark and Redact" option: The SSN's are permanently removed.



If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Acrobat -- Batch Rename PDF Files Based on Content or Metadata

Using this script you can batch rename (if you have Acrobat Pro, of course) a bunch of PDF files based on their content or metadata.

The version of this tool that uses metadata can be purchased using this link: Buy Now

You can use the following parameters in it:
  • Original file name
  • Title
  • Author
  • Subject
  • Keywords
  • Number of pages

When you run the batch process for the first time, you will need to enter the pattern to use for the new file name. It looks like this:

Then you run the batch process (or Action, as it's called in Acrobat X) on your files, and they will all be automatically re-saved using the pattern you specified.
A menu item allows you to reset the pattern, in case you want to use a different one.

For the version of this tool that uses the file's contents, please contact me directly.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Acrobat -- Extract Non-Sequential Pages


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With this script you can extract a non-sequential range of pages in a PDF with ease.
Once launched from the Tools menu (or panel), the script will prompt you to enter the page ranges to extract, separated by comma's.

NEW: You can now test this script before buying it by using the free demo version, which can process up to 3 pages at a time. The full version has no such limitation, of course.


  • You can use single page number: 1, 2, 3
  • or page ranges: 1-3, 4-20
  • or an open-ended range: 25-
  • or a combination of all of the above.
The order in which you enter these ranges is not important.

For example, if you enter: 1, 4, 20-25, 16, 29-
The script will extract pages: 1, 4, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 29 to the end of the file.

Once the script is done you can choose to delete the extracted pages from the original file, if you wish.


If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.