PDFs are a great way to store important documents, but if there's ever a time you need to protect any sensitive personal information, Acrobat can help you do that.
I'm Sarah, and I'm going to show you how to use Acrobat to quickly and easily redact information in a PDF.
Accessing the Redact tool in Acrobat
To get started with Acrobat open, click on See all tools and scroll to the Protect section.
Here we'll find and select the Redact tool.
Next, we're going to open our PDF.
Now that we've got this document here, we're going to go to the sidebar and choose the Redact text and images option.
Selecting text and images to redact
With this selected, we're going to highlight the sensitive information we want to hide.
If there are any images or graphics we want to hide, we can choose those as well.
Essentially, any text or graphic element in the file can be hidden using this tool.
Applying redactions and removing hidden information
Once we have everything selected, we're going to go down and choose Apply.
On this pop-up, we're asked if we're okay with the information being removed, which we are.
It's possible the document may have hidden information such as metadata, embedded content, or hidden layers, and we can opt to have that removed along with the redacted information.
Then we'll select Continue to finalize the redaction.
Saving the redacted PDF
Acrobat will now create and save a new version of the PDF with _Redacted added to the file name, leaving your original file unaltered.
And that's it.
Only a few clicks and our sensitive information is secure.
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What you’ll learn
Protect sensitive information
The Redact tool permanently removes any sensitive information you select within your document. Optionally, you can choose to remove hidden sensitive information such as metadata, embedded content, or hidden layers.
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