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The standard procedure for government agencies and private companies for many years is that they use Microsoft Word for the preparation of documents, and convert into PDF formats to disallow further editing. The procedure is sufficient for many cases. However, converting the documents to PDF does not entirely guarantee the safety of the information. Additional steps required in preventing copying sensitive information from the documents. This article provides the necessary guidance that will help users censor PDF to prevent it from releasing confidential information.
Censoring your PDF document is possible with the use of Wondershare PDFelement. Packed with professional tools, it gives you the opportunity to create, edit, combine, redact, and organize PDFs in a few simple steps. With its redaction feature, you can hide confidential information from documents that are meant to be shared.
In addition to redaction, PDFelement offers you a wide range of editing and annotation tools, enabling you to modify each element and add comments to your PDF. It also provides users with easy conversion of documents from their original format to PDF, or from PDF to other formats like Word, Excel, PPT and images etc.
The application is also multiplatform, which means you can download PDFelement for Windows and Mac OS X. The following step-by-step guide shows you how to search and remove sensitive, recurring text in confidential PDF documents using Wondershare PDFelement.
Launch PDFelement on your computer. From the Home window, press the "Open" button. In the next pop-up screen, navigate to the file that you want to open and press "Open" to upload.
For Mac users, start the program, and from the Home window choose "Open" to upload the document to PDFelement that you want to redact.
Once the PDF opens, choose the "Protect" tab. From the submenu, click the "Mark for Redactions" button. Then select the area that you would like to hide permanently. After marking the area, you can change the color of the redaction area. You can even add custom text and redaction codes. Now press the "Apply Redactions" button to remove the content permanently. Head to the "File" tab and choose "Save as" if you have not created an additional copy of the document.
Click the "Redaction" button to open the options available. Here you will notice that you have several options. Click the "Mark for Redaction" button to begin marking the text that you want to remove. If you have multiple pages to mark, then select "Mark Pages to Redact" button. Finally, click "Apply Redactions" and save your document.
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