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Have you created a PDF file that you want to forward to your colleagues or another organization? Does your PDF file sensitive or confidential information that you want to delete without spoiling the formatting of the PDF file? Does your PDF file have your name or address which you want to hide? Just like blacking out text on the hard copy of a document using marker, users can also hide the text using the redacting feature. Moreover, you can also add text on the redacted text to show what kind of information is hidden under that black ink. In this article, you will learn how to hide text in PDF files.
Wondershare PDFelement lets you hide the text in the PDF file with only a few clicks. You can also change the color of the filling, add overlay text and the redaction codes. You can either select from the list of FOIA codes or Privacy Act codes.
PDFelement is a PDF creator, editor, converter, form-filling and PDF scanner for your PDF files. It has every feature that a PDF software should have, in other words, it is your all-in-one solution for the PDF files. You can directly import the images, documents or webpages in PDFelement to convert them to the PDF files. You can also edit the already present PDF files, from adding or modifying text to removing or modifying images. One of the significant features is the presence of the OCR which will let you edit a scanned document.
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 and then click on the "Open PDF" button on the Home window. In this way, you can browse your files in local folder and import them into the program.
For Mac users: go to Launchpad on your Mac and run PDFelement. From the Home window, click on "Open File" and select the PDF files.
Click on the "Protect" tab and select "Mark for Redaction". Then go to the page where you want to hide the text and select the text. You can also use the "Search & Redact" option to search for a particular text and can hide it on all pages at once.
Right click on the redaction area and select "Properties". The properties will be opened on the right side of the screen. Here you can change the filling color. The next option is to add the overlay text, you can write custom text and change its color, position, style and even orientation. Once you have hidden the text, you can click on the "Apply Redactions" button in the same upper tab.
For Mac users: When you click the redaction area, the Properties window will be automatically expanded on the right side. Here, you can change the color, over-lay text or add codes to the blacked out text. After adding text, click on "Apply Redactions" to save all the changes.
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