Fast Tip Friday – Search and Redact Text Patterns Using Adobe Acrobat

This fast tip demonstrates how to search for email addresses, social security numbers, credit card numbers and dates within a PDF file and then redact any personal identifying information (PII).

NOTE:  The Search & Remove Text function can handle a maximum of 500 PDFs at a time.

In another Fast Tip Friday tutorial, I demonstrated how to search and redact custom text patterns using regular expressions in Adobe Acrobat.

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