Annotation redaction creating unwanted white rectangles

[luclemot]

Bug description

Hi !
I'm getting a similar issue than on this stackoverflow question.
While trying to redact some text from a relatively dense pdf, the redaction works well but it adds an extra white rectangle per redaction which covers text I don't want redacted.

How it happened

I simply ran the following lines for each rectangle I wanted redacted:

page.add_redact_annot(rect, fill=white)
page.apply_redactions()

From my attempt at debugging this issue, it seems like the add_redact_annot is working fine (it crosses off the right rectangle when commenting out the next line) and that the issue comes from the apply_redactions method.

Outputs

Below is the result redaction. The text in red is replacement text I added. On the overlined screenshot, you can see the unwanted white rectangle.

Your configuration

• Ubuntu
• Python 3.10
• PyMuPDF==1.22.3

[JorjMcKie]

This is not a bug, but an often seen complication. Let me trasnfer this to "Discussions" first.