Version 5 of the Redax plug-in for Adobe Acrobat on Windows has been launched, promising major enhancements in both document markup and redaction.

First released in 1997, Redax 1.0 was designed to meet the needs of US government agencies with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) obligations as well as law firms, corporations and other agencies with an obligation or desire to protect sensitive information contained in otherwise distributable documents.

Redax completely redacts (removes) text and graphics from the PDF page. Hacking the file cannot reveal properly redacted information. Redax locates and marks documents for redaction automatically by using lists of words and phrases. Users can also place redactions manually, drawing boxes to mark sections of PDF pages for redaction.

Version 5 adds the following new capabilities:
Expanded Pattern Search - a new pattern-search engine includes patterns to find credit card numbers, dates, email addresses, postal codes in 12 countries, Social Security Numbers (SSN), telephone numbers and URLs.
Support for Regular Expressions - create your own patterns, and find almost any standardized text.
New Redaction Engine - handles many 'broken' PDF files.
Improved Performance - adds Redax boxes using 'Find Using List' up to 30 times faster.

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