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January 23, 2024
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Find Text and Redact: Adobe not recognizing numbers within tax returns

  • January 23, 2024
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Hello,

I've used the redact tool for years and am having many issues. I need to redact all numbers of social security on a tax return except for the last 4 digits. This worked for me earlier on other returns, but the find text and redact is not finding anything within the document. I've also tried redacting manually, and I cannot select the digits, instead the redact tool highlight entire paragraphs.

I have the latest softward on my mac.

Thanks.

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try67
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January 23, 2024

That means there's a problem with the structure of the file. Either there's no real text in it (just an image) or the text is not defined correctly. If you can't select the text with the mouse then you can't use the Search & Remove Text tool on it, either.