Acrobat 9 Search and Redact Patterns for non-U.S. users

This article describes additional files which enhance the Acrobat 9 Search and Redact Pattern feature for users in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. These additional files are available at the end of this article.

Acrobat 9 Pro (Win and Mac) and Pro Extended (Win) extends Acrobat's Search and Redact functionality to support pattern-based searching. The five patterns included with Acrobat 9 are:

• Phone Number
• Credit Card Number
• Social Security Number
• Email Address
• Date

With pattern-based searching, the user can choose one of these five patterns and search for all text strings in one (or more) PDF files which match this pattern. For example, if the user chooses the Social Security Number pattern, Acrobat will search across the PDF file and find all instances of this pattern. The user can then select some or all of these search results and mark them for redaction.

Certain patterns above do not work well for non-United States users. For example, Social Security Numbers are used in the United States as its de facto national identification number. However other countries have different national identity numbers (the Canadian Social Insurance Number or the British National Insurance Number). Therefore, Adobe has created and is making available additional pattern files for the five countries noted above.

The five patterns above have been changed as follows:

• Canada -- Replaced the United States Social Security Number with the Canadian Social Insurance Number. Modified the date pattern. All remaining patterns are identical to the U.S. patterns.
• United Kingdom -- Replaced the United States Social Security Number with the U.K. National Insurance Numbers. Modified the phone number pattern. All remaining patterns are identical to the U.S. patterns
• France -- Replaced the United States Social Security Number with the French National Identification Number. Modified the phone number pattern. Modified the date pattern. All remaining patterns are identical to the U.S. patterns
• Germany -- Replaced the United States Social Security Number with the German National Identification Number. Modified the phone number pattern. Modified the date pattern. All remaining patterns are identical to the U.S. patterns
• Japan -- Modified the phone number pattern. Modified the date pattern. All remaining patterns are identical to the U.S. patterns

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