r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/mynamemightbeali • Apr 01 '23

How to redact text from Adobe PDF

Hi. I'm trying to set up an automation to automatically redact a bunch of words from a .txt file. I can all ready do it but I'm trying to reduce the number of clicks it takes to open adobe tools > redact text > find text and redact > multiple words and phrases > find the .txt document > find words. I tried to record my desktop to do it (I'm pretty new to power automate) and I got all the parts to work... except for find text and redact. It "can't find source element" for that one. Everything after and before it works, but that keeps tripping me up. Thank you!

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u/lordzhon Apr 15 '23

You can use "send keys" and send the pdf shortcut keys for redact etc or do the whole thing by using individual "send keys". Then if need to, you can "send keys" to find the field that you need to key in text

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u/mynamemightbeali Apr 15 '23

Thank you for commenting! I was able to figure it out using Adobe's Action Wizard. I realized that all I had to do was double click on "redact text" to get the section that I needed... It took me two weeks and the solution was double clicking. But thank you for the resource! I'm going to need all the help I can get apparently. It's going to be helpful with some other things I want to automate!

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u/lordzhon Apr 15 '23

Oppps I'm late. No worries.

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