Redact Some information on .tiff Image

Question

User1500058092 posted
Hi, We want to redact certain information on .tiff image after loading in in web browser. Say for example, we have a .tiff file which after loading user wants to blacken/ redact sensitive information like SSN No., credit card no and print it before giving hardcopy to anyone. Any help appreciate. Thanks, Vinay

Answer 1

User815917640 posted

Did you find anything on this? OR any one has any info on how to do this?

 I need to blank out SSN's from tiff image. I could make Windows app

 

Thanks
 

Answer 2

User-396210223 posted

I am looking for something similar, anyone found any solutions??

Answer 3

User815917640 posted

 Yes we did.

 We used open source OCR library: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

It is very good at redaction as compared to paid ones that I tried. Here's some code with logic as comments

1    Dim OcrOutput As List(Of tessnet2.Word) = Ocr.doOCR(Image1, Rectangle.Empty)
2    'Read words
3    For Each Word As tessnet2.Word In OcrOutput
4        'Read each character in words - so we can look for pattern
5        For Each WordChar As tessnet2.Character In Word.CharList
6        Next
7    
8        'Then run regular expression on the words or character combinations to extract out SSN or anthing
9        'And get x,y,height,width for word/char to create rectangles that will be drawn on the image
10   Next
11   

  Hope this helps