PDF Tools

PDF Redaction Helper

Cover sensitive areas with black boxes during PDF rendering output

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/pdf-redaction-helper' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/sourceFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-redaction-helper' \
  -F 'sourceFile=/Users/quyue/www/elysia-tools/public/samples/pdf/pdf-2026-02-19-source-4pages.pdf' \
  -F 'redactionRects=[{"page":1,"x":92,"y":600,"width":220,"height":22,"label":"FULL NAME"},{"page":2,"x":100,"y":520,"width":260,"height":20,"label":"ID NUMBER"}]' \
  -F 'showLabel=true' \
  -F 'labelFontSize=8'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-redaction-helper

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
sourceFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
redactionRects	textarea	Yes	—
showLabel	checkbox	No	—
labelFontSize	number	No	—

File-type parameters must be uploaded first via POST /upload/pdf-redaction-helper, then the returned filePath is passed to the corresponding file field.

Response format

File result

JSON

{
  "filePath": "/public/processing/randomid.ext",
  "fileName": "output.ext",
  "contentType": "application/octet-stream",
  "size": 1024,
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  },
  "error": "Error message (optional)",
  "message": "Notification message (optional)"
}

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-pdf-redaction-helper": {
      "name": "pdf-redaction-helper",
      "description": "Cover sensitive areas with black boxes during PDF rendering output",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pdf-redaction-helper",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pdf-redaction-helper",
    "arguments": {
  "sourceFile": "/Users/quyue/www/elysia-tools/public/samples/pdf/pdf-2026-02-19-source-4pages.pdf",
  "redactionRects": "[{\"page\":1,\"x\":92,\"y\":600,\"width\":220,\"height\":22,\"label\":\"FULL NAME\"},{\"page\":2,\"x\":100,\"y\":520,\"width\":260,\"height\":20,\"label\":\"ID NUMBER\"}]",
  "showLabel": true,
  "labelFontSize": 8
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

File parameters accept a public file URL only (https://…). Local paths, data: URIs, and Base64 strings are not supported.

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