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Introducing Block Out Text Feature

Our new Block Out Text feature is designed to provide a simple and effective solution for hiding sensitive information in documents, images, or any other media.

Key Features:

Effortlessly hide text or information in your content

Flexible options to customize font, size, color, and background

Easily apply the feature to a variety of media formats

Potential Use Cases and Benefits:

Protect confidential information: Block Out Text is a secure and reliable way to conceal sensitive data, such as names, addresses, or financial details, ensuring privacy and data protection.

Maintain document integrity: By masking or blurring specific content, Block Out Text allows you to share documents or images without revealing proprietary information.

Compliance with regulations: Block Out Text helps you comply with data privacy regulations by providing a simple solution to redact personal or sensitive information.

Enhance professional appearance: With Block Out Text, you can present documents or images in a polished and professional manner, removing distractions and focusing on the key message.

Streamline collaboration: By easily blocking out text, you can collaborate with others while ensuring that certain information remains hidden, aiding in efficient work processes.

Experience the convenience and peace of mind that the Block Out Text feature brings. Safeguard your information and present your content with confidence and professionalism.

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Block Out Text: full-featured PDF editor

When moving your document management online, it's essential to have the best PDF editing tool that meets your needs.

The most commonly-used file formats can be easily converted into PDF. This makes creating and using most document types simple. Multiple files containing different types of content can also be combined into one glorious PDF. Using PDF, you can create presentations and reports which are both detailed and easy to read.

There are many solutions allowing you to modify PDFs, but there are only a few to cover all use cases and don't cost you a fortune.

pdfFiller’s editor has features for editing, annotating, converting PDFs into other formats, adding electronic signatures, and filling out PDF forms. pdfFiller is an online PDF editing solution available via a web browser. You don’t have to download any applications. It’s an extensive solution available from any device with an internet connection.

To modify PDF document you need to:

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Upload a document from your device.

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Open the Enter URL tab and insert the hyperlink to your file.

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Get the form you need from the catalog using the search field.

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Upload a document from cloud storage (Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, One Drive and others).

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Browse the Legal library.

Once you uploaded the document, it’s saved and can be found in the “My Documents” folder.

Use powerful editing features such as typing text, annotating, blacking out and highlighting. Add fillable fields and send for signing. Change a page order. Add and edit visual content. Collaborate with people to complete the document. Once a document is completed, download it to your device or save it to cloud.

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How to Use the Block Out Text Feature in pdfFiller

The Block Out Text feature in pdfFiller allows you to easily redact sensitive information or confidential data from your PDF documents. Follow these simple steps to use this feature:

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Open the PDF document that you want to edit in pdfFiller.

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Click on the 'Edit' tab in the top menu.

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Select the 'Block Out' option from the toolbar.

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Click and drag your mouse over the text or area that you want to block out. This will create a black rectangle that covers the selected text or area.

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Adjust the size and position of the black rectangle as needed by clicking and dragging its edges or corners.

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If you want to add a comment or explanation for the blocked out text, you can click on the 'Comment' button in the toolbar and type your message.

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Once you are satisfied with the blocked out text, click on the 'Save' button to apply the changes to your document.

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You can also remove the blocked out text by selecting it and clicking on the 'Delete' button in the toolbar.

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To save the edited document, click on the 'Done' button and choose the desired saving option.

That's it! You have successfully used the Block Out Text feature in pdfFiller to redact sensitive information from your PDF documents. Enjoy the added security and peace of mind!

What our customers say about pdfFiller

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Mary

2017-05-31

First time using PDFfiller. When I copy and past to make a document I would like to change the font color from black and blue or another color. Other than that, like the service

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2019-01-09

I'm liking the PDFfiller very much! One problem I'm having is when I get ready to type into another area it takes to much time for me to get the click on prompts....for the shaded area peach. I wish that was faste

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How do you black out on a PDF?

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How do I hide information in a PDF?

Click on the “Protect” tab and select “Mark for Redaction”. Then go to the page where you want to hide text and select the text. You can also use the “Search & Redact” option to search for a particular word and hide it on all pages at once.

How do I remove PDF sensitive information?

Choose Select a File, and then open the Employee Record.pdf sample file or other PDF document from which you want to redact sensitive information. Click Mark for Redaction in the top menu to mark items you want to permanently remove from the file. ... Click Apply to remove the marked areas of content.

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