PDFelement - Edit, Annotate, Fill and Sign PDF Documents
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Many organizations deal with sensitive records and data that cannot be disposed like ordinary information. While publishing such kind of information these organizations need to cover up certain part of the information to keep it safe and secure. There is the probability of your mail or the recipient’s mail being hacked and the file gotten from there. Furthermore, the person might be careless with his computer and it gets stolen or a person accesses it and copies this information. To protect your data, you can cover text in PDF to ensure that private content has been permanently removed from the document.
Covering PDF file is very easy and simple with Wondershare PDFelement. You can cover specific text and images, an entire page or a set of pages within a PDF document. The Search & Redact function even let you search and hide repetitive information that appears throughout the document. In addition, you are able to customize the look of redaction area by filling color, adding custom text and professional redaction codes.
PDFelement is a good tool for anyone who uses PDF documents on a regular basis. The built in editing and annotation tools lets you freely make changes on the texts, images and pages in your document. You can highlight specific sections, add comments and sticky notes and draw free-hand markups etc. What’s more, it allows you to convert PDF file from or to other popular document and image formats without losing quality.
First step is to run PDFelement and open the PDF file that is to be covered in the PDFelement. To do this, click the "Open" button on the Home window to import your file.
For Mac users: Open the PDF file with PDFelement on your Mac system by clicking the "Open File" button.
After opening the PDF file, you then need to click the "Protect" tab. Then choose the "Mark for Redaction" option. After clicking it, use the cursor to select the information.
For Mac users: Move to the top right corner, click the "Arrow" icon beside the Redaction button to open up further options that are available for covering up information. Click the "Mark for Redaction" button and select the items that you are going to cover.
After marking the text, you can also set the appearance of the redaction box using the Gear icon in the top right corner. You can choose colour of your choice from the wide range of colours available. Tick the "Overlay Text" button to add custom text and specific codes over the redacted area. For applying the redaction, click on the "Apply Redactions" option.
For Mac users: when you click on the redaction area, you can also see the Properties window expanded on the right side. You can change color, put overlay text and codes onto the redaction area. Finally click "Redaction > Apply Redactions" to start covering text in PDF.
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