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Brandon ThomasandClaude Opus 5.5 bd57377435 Fix #525 (item 4): phone pattern redacts international numbers whole (#543)
The Phone Numbers redaction pattern accepted only 10 digits (11 with a
country code), the North American form. For "+49 2151 123456" (12 digits)
the `+` candidate was rejected and the scan then matched "2151 123456",
leaving "+49" visible: a partial redaction in a document the user thinks
is clean.

The pattern now accepts, still grouped by at least one separator:
- E.164 numbers with a leading `+`: 8-15 digits in all;
- national numbers with a trunk 0 followed by 6-14 digits, whose first
  group has at least two digits (so decimals don't match) and which are
  not a day-first date (left to the date pattern);
- North American numbers as before.
A separator may now be followed by `(`, so "+49 (0) 2151 123456" is one
match instead of a partial "(0) 2151 123456".

Refs #525. The other items (page-number and date tokens, stamps) are not
addressed here.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-09 10:43:11 -04:00
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2026-10-07 16:03:57 -04:00

pdfcraft-redact

Layer L4 (may use edit): redaction, architecture §11.2.

// Marks are Redact annotations (pdfcraft-annot: Shape::Redact { quads, overlay }).
let marks: Vec<Mark> = marks(&doc);                 // page, areas (user space), fill, overlay text
let report = apply(&mut doc, None)?;                 // everything, or Some(&[pages])
clear_marks(&mut doc, None)?;                        // remove marks without applying

apply removes, under every marked area:

  • text: glyphs are cut out of Tj/TJ/'/" and replaced by a TJ displacement of the same advance, so the rest of the line keeps its exact position. Widths come from /Widths, /W//DW (composite fonts, embedded CMaps with codespace and CID ranges), Type 3 font matrices, and approximations for the standard 14. A glyph goes when it overlaps an area by more than a fifth of its size (or a point) both ways; zero-size text goes when its origin is inside;
  • images: fully covered → removed; partly covered → a copy with the covered pixels cleared (8/16-bit and 1/2/4-bit images, image masks; Flate/LZW/RL/A85/AHx). Codecs PdfCraft can't re-encode (DCT, JPX, JBIG2, CCITT) are removed whole (fail-closed); inline images under an area are removed;
  • vectors: covered paths are removed; partly covered paths and shadings are clipped so nothing paints inside the areas;
  • form XObjects: rewritten recursively into new objects (pages sharing the original keep it);
  • annotations whose rectangle overlaps (with their pop-ups), and form fields with a widget under a mark;
  • the marks themselves, replaced by boxes in their fill colour (and overlay text) drawn into the page as a /PCMark /Redaction stream.

A verification pass re-reads each redacted page and fails the operation if any glyph or inline image is still under an area. Content that can't be decoded makes the operation fail rather than leave it unredacted.

Remove hidden information / Sanitize

let found = sanitize::scan(&doc);                          // [(Hidden, count)] per category
sanitize::remove_hidden(&mut doc, &[Hidden::Comments])?;   // chosen categories
sanitize::sanitize(&mut doc)?;                             // all of them

Categories: metadata (/Info, XMP), file attachments, comments, form fields (flattened so the values stay visible), hidden text (render modes 3 and 7, or wholly off the page), hidden layers (content of off optional-content groups, then the groups), bookmarks, links/actions/JavaScript, and /PieceInfo private data. Both make the next save a full rewrite.

patterns finds phone numbers, e-mail addresses, credit card numbers (Luhn-checked), US Social Security numbers and dates for Search & Redact.

Not yet: pattern locales, struct-tree/alt-text cleanup, metadata and hidden-information sanitising (M8.4), re-encoding of DCT images (they are removed instead).