Here's how:. If you want to repeat a redaction mark across an entire document, like a repeating watermark, footer or header, you can do so by using Acrobat's Repeat Mark Across Page. This tool works specifically if a mark appears in the same location on multiple pages of your PDF.
To use it, right-click the specific redacted mark and select the Repeat Mark Across Page option. After you finish the PDF redaction, confirm the blacked out text was properly redacted. To do so, open the document, copy the block of text you blacked out and paste it in a new document. Your redactions should remain in place. If the redaction was completed successfully, there is no way to reverse or locate the text you have blacked out because it no longer exists.
If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Pro to black out text, try this method. Print out the PDF document and find the section you want to black out. Define the initial search option.
If you marked an item s that you do not want to redact, Click on the desired selection in the PDF document. Press [Delete]. Using the Save in pull-down list, select a save location. To use an existing list of words and phrases that you regularly search for. Click Import The Open dialog box appears. Using the Look in pull-down menu and navigation window, locate and select the document you would like to import. Recommended: Use.
To type a list of words and phrases, In the New word or phrase text box, type a word or phrase you want Adobe Acrobat to search for. Click Add. The word or phrase is added to the Word and phrase list. Optional To save the Word and phrase list that you just typed for use later, Click Export Using the Save in pull-down menu and navigation window, choose a save location for the.
In the File name text box, type a name for the. To remove a word or phrase from the Word and phrase list, Select the word from the list. Click Remove.
To deselect an item marked for redaction, Click on the desired selection in the PDF document. You can also directly drag and drop your file to the program. For Windows platforms, click the "Protect" tab and then select "Mark for Redaction" to begin selection of text or objects which you would like to hide. Once you are comfortable with your selection, click "Apply Redactions" and then click "OK" on the dialogue box to confirm the action.
PDFelement also allows you to change the color of the area to be redacted; place overlay text andinsert redaction code. For Windows users, right click the redaction area and choose "Properties" to set the appearance. Select the items for removal by dragging the cursor over text and objects on the document. Active 9 months ago. Viewed times. Update: - Added Bounty I am trying to alter the redaction annotation to change the underlying text that gets burned into a PDF when you apply redactions.
However, when I right-click on the annotation before applying redactions , the overlay text immediately gets updated to the new text: At this point, when I apply redactions, it's the new text that is burned into the PDF. GetPage i. GetRolloverAppearanceObject ; redact.
GetRedactionRolloverAppearance ; redact. Get PdfName. RO ; redact. R ; I confirmed they are in fact the exact same reference by checking the equality comparator. RO ; secondRedact. Put PdfName. RO, ro ; If you do this and apply redactions, the "overlay text" from the first redact will have replaced the "overlay text" in the second. Improve this question. Chronicide Chronicide 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. What does the specification say? The OverlayText entry of redaction annotations is specified as Key Type Value OverlayText text string Optional A text string specifying the overlay text that should be drawn over the redacted region after the affected content has been removed. This entry is ignored if the RO entry is present. Key Type Value DA byte string Required if OverlayText is present, ignored otherwise The appearance string that shall be used in formatting the overlay text when it is drawn after the affected content has been removed see After this redaction is applied and the affected content has been removed, the overlay appearance should be drawn such that its origin lines up with the lower-left corner of the annotation rectangle.
This form XObject is not necessarily related to other annotation appearances, and may or may not be present in the AP dictionary. Improve this answer. Thank you for providing that reference information, it was very informative. While those specific properties were not able to address the issue, I was able to find the PDF documentation to be able to experiment further and find a workaround.
I'll post an answer shortly that describes how I got it to work. Update: It looks like a copy of the original OverlayText is being kept somewhere in the rollover entry in the AppearanceDictionary. Originally, I thought that removing the AppearanceDictionary resolved my problem. However, it led to a slew of glitches. So I think I need to update the ApearanceDictionary returned by.
GetRolloverAppearance to update the OverlayText there as well, but iText doesn't expose all of the redact appearance properties necessary to modify it for my needs. I may be out of luck Have you tried simply removing that RolloverAppearance? Actually i assume that is a misnamed getter. It refers to the RO entry described in my answer which has nothing to do with rollover but which more likely is short for redaction overlay.
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