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stanleydenman
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November 10, 2023
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Redact text tool will not work

  • November 10, 2023
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Gotta vent a bit.  Adobe has the worse support.  Chat people never know how to solve a problem, and the promised phone call to discuss my more "advanced" inquiry never comes.   I have been spending hours trying to get the redaction tool to work.  My chat support person re-installed Pro to no benefit.

 

I open the tool and click "find text and redact".  Next I get this meaningless warning though the pdf has been OCRed..  I then search text and click "sect and remove text", the "selectall".  Now i have lots entires with a cehck box nex to them.  But what next?  the "apply" button remains disabled!! 

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    Amal.
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    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    November 10, 2023

    Hi @stanleydenman 

    Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that

    Is this an issue with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check.

    What is the version of the Acrobat DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 23.06.20360 installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.

    Also try to repair the installation from the help menu (Win Only) and see if that works.

    Please try to reset the Acrobat preferences as described here https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-reset-acrobat-preference-settings-to-default/td-p/4792082

     

    Let us know how it goes.

     

    ~Amal

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    stanleydenmanAuthor
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    November 10, 2023

    When I click the question mark in the top right with the tooltip "get help or share feedback" I get the following menu:  Take viewer tour, acrobat help, acrobat tutorials..share feedback, what's new."  I do not have the "Help" options you suggest I use Amal. 

     

    As I said, I spent 1/2 a day on chat with Adobe, reinstalled Acrobat only to find they could not diagnosis, but that I would get a call.  Never got a call.  I pay over $200 a year for this product only to have it fail me on a mission-critical task that the product claims to be able to accomplish?

     

    I really am at the end with this product.  I have to go into the registry to get this product to perform as promised? Unbelievable.  

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