Release pdfSweep 5.0.1

Release date: Feb 14th, 2025

pdfSweep is an iText Core add-on to securely redact content from PDFs.

This release improves pdfSweep’s handling of overlapping glyphs to produce better results.

We also fixed a bug where invalid data was left after cleanup, and resolved an issue where processed content would render differently in certain viewers.

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Improvements

When using overlap ratio in cleanup, calculate it based on single glyph renders to get better results

Bug fixes

Output PDF contains invalid data after cleanup

Examples (latest ones)