Urgent: I need to remove redaction marks in bulk

[Kate_Walsh]

I work in data protection and have run 500 pdfs through lists of words that I want redacted. I have found that I had my settings wrong and now lots of words that I do not want redacted had the red box redaction mark around them.

Please could someone let me know if there is a way to remove these marks in bulk rather than document by document? Thanks

[Kate_Walsh · Accepted solution]

No helpful solutions found - fastest way I reversed this was by restoring previous version of each pdf file. Just did this by right clicking on them in file explorer. Took away the red boxes and now I can apply the right filters. Hope this at least helps a bit if anyone else has the same issue.

[try67]

You can use this code (for example, as a part of an Action) to remove all Redaction comments from a file:

this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
if (annots!=null) {
	for (var i=annots.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
		var annot = annots[i];
		if (annot.type=="Redact") annot.destroy();
	}
}