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all of the marked content in the document.
2. A dialog box pops up to give a warning message and asks if you are sure to apply
the redaction or not.
 Select OK after you have marked all content that you want to redact.
When you save the document after applying redaction, you can save the redacted file
automatically as a new file with the preconfigured filename. To configure the filename,
please select Adjust filename when saving applied redaction marks and input text
in the Prefix and Suffix boxes in File > Preferences > Documents > Redaction.
Search and Remove Text
You can find and remove content either in a single PDF file or in multiple PDF files
under a specified folder that contain searchable text with the Search & Redact
command.
1. Select Protect > Mark for Redaction > Search and Redact. (Or click the Search
or replace icon in the upper right corner of the application window, and
choose Search & Redact.) Then specify what you want to redact in the Search
panel. (For more about the search feature, please refer to “advanced search”.)
Please do one of the following:
 To search and redact an exact word or phrase, select Match exact word or
phrase. Then type the text you wish to find and redact into the search
dialogue box.
 You can search and redact multiple words or phrases at the same time. Select
Multiple words or phrase, and click Select Words…. In the pop-up dialog
box, enter the word or phrase you want to search and redact, and click Add.
Repeat until you add all the words/phrases you want to search for. Or you can
click Import to import a text file with the list of words or phrases to search
for. For the words you have added, click Export to export them to a text file.
 To search and redact a predefined redaction profile, select Redaction
Profiles and then select an existing redaction profile you want to use. See also
Create and manage redaction profiles.
 To search and redact patterns (such as phone numbers and credit card
numbers), select Looks like search pattern. Then select the pattern you
want to search from the Select your pattern drop-down list, and choose the
specific country or region from the Country/Region drop-down list.
2. Click Search.
3. Check the results you want to redact, and choose Mark whole word(s) for
redaction to mark all characters of the word(s) you search, or choose Mark
partial word(s) for redaction to mark the specified characters of the word(s).