Search Labels and Redact Text in a PDF

// Load the document
PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\input.pdf", null);
 
// this is my search label that comes before the text to be redacted
String searchLabel = "Phone Number";
 
// Loop through all pages in the document
boolean foundLabel = false;
for (int pageix = 0; pageix < pdfDoc.getPageCount(); ++pageix)
{
   // Search for the label text
   Vector labelInstances = pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).findText(searchLabel, false, false);
 
   // Add annotations after the instances of the label
   if (labelInstances != null && labelInstances.size() &gt; 0)
   {
    	foundLabel = true;
    	for (TextPosition tp : labelInstances)
    	{
    	  Rectangle2D labelBounds = tp.getEnclosingShape().getBounds2D();
    	  Rectangle2D.Double eraseBounds = new Rectangle2D.Double(labelBounds.getX() + labelBounds.getWidth() + 1, 
    																			labelBounds.getY() - 2, 2 * 72, labelBounds.getHeight() + 4);
 
    	  Redaction redact = pdfDoc.getAnnotationFactory().createRedaction("Redaction");
    	  redact.setRectangle(eraseBounds);
    	  redact.setInternalColor(Color.black);
    	  pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).addAnnotation(redact);
    	}
    }
 }
 
// output whether the search label was found or not
System.out.println("Search Label found " + foundLabel);
 
// save doc with redaction
pdfDoc.saveDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\output_redact.pdf");

// Load the document PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\input.pdf", null); // this is my search label that comes before the text to be redacted String searchLabel = "Phone Number"; // Loop through all pages in the document boolean foundLabel = false; for (int pageix = 0; pageix < pdfDoc.getPageCount(); ++pageix) { // Search for the label text Vector labelInstances = pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).findText(searchLabel, false, false); // Add annotations after the instances of the label if (labelInstances != null && labelInstances.size() &gt; 0) { foundLabel = true; for (TextPosition tp : labelInstances) { Rectangle2D labelBounds = tp.getEnclosingShape().getBounds2D(); Rectangle2D.Double eraseBounds = new Rectangle2D.Double(labelBounds.getX() + labelBounds.getWidth() + 1, labelBounds.getY() - 2, 2 * 72, labelBounds.getHeight() + 4); Redaction redact = pdfDoc.getAnnotationFactory().createRedaction("Redaction"); redact.setRectangle(eraseBounds); redact.setInternalColor(Color.black); pdfDoc.getPage(pageix).addAnnotation(redact); } } } // output whether the search label was found or not System.out.println("Search Label found " + foundLabel); // save doc with redaction pdfDoc.saveDocument ("C:\\myfolder\\output_redact.pdf");