I have a 610 page document that is marked up for redactions. Is there a way to tell me how many pages have redactions? Or do I have to physically sit and count each page that has a redaction on it?
It can be done with a simple script, which you can execute from the JS Console window. Press Ctrl+J to open that console, then paste the code below into it (overwriting any existing text there), select it ALL with the mouse/keyboard (Ctrl+A will do the trick), and then press Ctrl+Enter to run it.
this.syncAnnotScan();
var counter = 0;
for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
var annots = this.getAnnots({nPage: p});
if (annots==null || annots.length==0) continue;
for (var i in annots) {
if (annots.type=="Redact") {
counter++;
break;
}
}
}
app.alert(counter + " pages contain Redaction annotations in this file.",3);
I was able to open the screens to paste the script code you provided and then I selected all the text by doing the CTRL + A and everything will highlight but nothing is happening when Pressing CTRL + Enter
Let's try to figure out why you cannot execute this script in your console. What operating system are you running on? Can you execute different scripts? This one-liner should display an alert dialog:
app.alert("It worked!");
If this does not work either, there is something wrong either with the way you are trying to execute scripts in the console, or with your JavaScript installation. If Javascript would be disabled on your computer, you should see a dialog after you try to execute the script, asking you if you want to enable JS support.
Every time I copy and paste the code into the JavaScript Debugger it just comes up and says undefined. I tried the It worked one you provided and it worked just fine
"undefined" is not an error. When you ran my example, you may have noticed that the console printed a "1" after you closed the alert dialog. The JavaScript console will always print the return value of whatever you executed. If your code does not return anything, that value will be "undefined". So in general, "undefined" is not an indication for an error. It just tells you that your code did not return any values.
However, in your case, you should not see "undefined" - that is because your last line is actually an app.alert(), which will return the code of the button you pressed to dismiss the dialog. Because there is only an "OK" button, you should see again a "1" printed. Make sure that just the lines of the script are selected when you execute the code.
To make sure that you're executing the full code I recommend you place it as a MouseUp script of a button field and then press that button. Also make sure to tick the option to show the JS Console on warnings and errors under Edit - Preferences - JavaScript.
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