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Do you want to prevent the difficulties of editing form online? You don’t have to bother about installing untrustworthy services or compromising your paperwork ever again. With DocHub, you can black out text in form without spending hours on it. And that’s not all; our intuitive platform also provides you with robust data collection tools for collecting signatures, information, and payments through fillable forms. You can build teams using our collaboration capabilities and effectively work together with multiple people on documents. On top of that, DocHub keeps your information secure and in compliance with industry-leading security requirements.

Here is how you can black out text in form with DocHub:

  1. Start by creating your account or begin your free trial.
  2. Add a form that needs editing, or make it from scratch.
  3. Edit, protect, annotate, and make your document interactive with fillable fields.
  4. Find the tool from the top toolbar to black out text in form and apply it.
  5. Proofread your content to make sure it is correct.
  6. Click Download/Export to save your record.
  7. Click Share and send and choose how you want to deliver your form to the recipients.

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Method 2: Redacting Text Manually Open the document containing the text that needs to be redacted in your word processor. Identify the text that needs to be redacted. Select the text that needs to be redacted. Use the formatting tools in your word processor to obscure or remove the selected text.
Heres how to black out text in a PDF: Open your PDF in docHub. Select Tools, then Redact. Select text. Either double-click to select the text or drag to select lines of text. Apply redaction. Once youve selected the text you want to remove, click Save to apply the changes and save the document.
Step # 3: Highlight the text you want to black out. Step # 4: Right-click on the highlighted text and select Properties from the dropdown menu. Step # 5: In the Properties window, click on the Fill tab. Step # 6: Choose the color you want to use to black out the text.
Blackening transforms data in a digital document in a way that prevents reading of the original content, for example, the identification of a person or specific information contained in the document, by applying a black stripe where the text appears.
The best and free way to redact a PDF without docHub Pro is UPDF. It incorporates all the PDF redaction features you can get with docHub Pro but in a free and user-friendly way. With UPDF, you can manually insert redaction on specific text or images, or you can redact specific text on multiple pages with one click.
How to Black Out Text in PDF Without Redacting? Open the PDF file you want to edit in the PDFgear. Use the highlighter tool under the Annotate tab to choose the text you want to black out. Choose the color you want to use to black out the text. Repeat these steps for any additional text you want to black out.
Blacking Out Text Manually Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the ab highlighter icon in the Font section. Click the black box in the drop-down menu. Click the black line below the highlighter icon. Repeat this process of highlighting with black to cover text.
You can certainly black out text in your PDF without redacting it. In docHub Pros Protect toolbox, you can also set the option to black out the marker. You can go to the Protect Tool to hide sensitive information.

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