Redactify

Redactify is a web application for redacting sensitive information from PDF documents. It is built with Next.js and TypeScript and styled using Tailwind CSS and components from shadcn/ui.

Features

• PDF Upload – drag and drop or select a PDF file to begin.

• Manual redaction – click and drag to highlight areas that should be redacted.

• Undo, clear and reset – manage redaction boxes before finalising the document.

• Download options – export either a recoverable or secure flattened PDF.

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Project structure

src/
  app/               # Next.js app router entry points
  components/        # UI components including the RedactionTool
  hooks/             # Custom React hooks
  lib/               # Utility helpers
  middleware.ts      # Request logging

Getting started

1. Install dependencies:

   npm install

2. Start the development server:

   npm run dev

   The app runs on localhost:9002 by default.
3. Lint and type‑check the project:

   npm run lint
   npm run typecheck

4. Build for production:

   npm run build
   npm start

Logging

The application includes a middleware that logs every incoming request to the console. The logs are structured as JSON for easier parsing and analysis.

Example log entry:

{
  "message": "User access",
  "timestamp": "2025-07-22T16:35:37.968Z",
  "ip": "::1",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "geo": {
    "city": "Mountain View",
    "country": "US",
    "region": "CA"
  }
}

To persist these logs, you can redirect the console output to a file when starting the application:

npm start > access.log 2>&1

License

This project is released under the MIT License.

For support email vibecoder01+redactify@gmail.com