Retaining Highlighting When Redacting

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January 10, 2020
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I keep losing all my highlighted text (i.e. the text is still there, it's just no longer highlighted) in my document when I apply redactions. Please help - I need both to work. Thank you.

Correct answer Thom Parker

If all you need is the highlights, and not the comment related functionality, the try flattening before redacting.

Thom Parker

Community Expert

What do you mean by highlighted text? is it a highlight annotation? or a graphic in the page content?

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wellsie77Author

Participant

No, just plain old highlighted text - when select text and hit the Highlight button.

Thom Parker

Correct answer

Community Expert

If all you need is the highlights, and not the comment related functionality, the try flattening before redacting.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

try67

Community Expert

A redaction will remove anything that's underneath it. There's no way around that.

wellsie77Author

Participant

Thank you. I did two rounds of highlighting and redacting the long document, only to lose all the highlighting once I hit Apply! The first time I thought maybe I did something wrong. And when you try to do it the other way (redact first, then highlight), you find that you can't select any text now because somehow it got converted to non-text.

My workaround was to redact it first, save it, run OCR and then highlight. That seemed to work.

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