### Install via NuGet Package Manager
## Redact PDF Text and Scanned Image Text using C# {#redact-text-and-scanned-text}
There are many different [ways to find and replace text in documents][10] that have already been discussed. You can find specific words in any document, find with case sensitivity, or by using regular expressions. I will be using the following PDF document, that contains some text and also an image with some text in it. Here we will combine the OCR and redaction process using GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET. Firstly, we will identify the text in the document and also the text which is inside the image of the document. Secondly, we will cover it with a black box to demonstrate how to programmatically hide any legal or confidential information even if is as text within a scanned document image.
The following steps will detect and replace the text in a PDF document, that contains regular text along with some text within an embedded image.
* Prepare the redactor settings using any OCR Connector.
* Load the PDF document using [Redactor][11] class with the prepared settings and any specific loading options.
* Define the [replacement option][12]. I have defined to black out the text.
* For the text redaction, use the appropriate text selection strategy. I have used [RegEx][13].
* Apply the redactions using the [Apply][14] method.
* Save the redacted document using [Save][15] method.
The following source code redacts the selected text within a PDF document using C#.
The output of the above code is as follows that black out the selected text of the PDF document.
## Get a Free API License
You can [get a free temporary license][16] to use the API without the evaluation limitations.
## Conclusion
To sum up, you have learned to redact text in documents. More importantly and precisely, we discussed how to redact text in images within a PDF document using C#. We selected the text to redact using regular expressions, however, it can be selected using many different ways as discussed earlier. Later we blackout the search results using a black rectangle box over the searched text.
For more details to learn about the API, visit the [documentation][17]. For queries, contact us via the [forum][18].
## See Also
* [Find and Replace Words in Documents using C#][19]
* [Find and Remove Watermarks from Documents in C#][20]
* [Add or Remove Annotations within Word files using C#][21]
[1]: https://blog.groupdocs.com/2021/08/04/find-and-replace-text-in-documents-using-csharp/
[2]: https://blog.groupdocs.com/2021/09/14/find-synonyms-of-words-using-csharp/
[3]: #redaction-dotnet-api
[4]: #redact-text-and-scanned-text
[5]: https://products.groupdocs.com/redaction/
[6]: https://products.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/
[7]: https://docs.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/supported-document-formats/
[8]: https://downloads.groupdocs.com/redaction
[9]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/groupdocs.redaction
[10]: https://blog.groupdocs.com/2021/08/04/find-and-replace-text-in-documents-using-csharp/
[11]: https://apireference.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/groupdocs.redaction/redactor
[12]: https://apireference.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/groupdocs.redaction.redactions/replacementoptions
[13]: https://apireference.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/groupdocs.redaction.redactions/regexredaction
[14]: https://apireference.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/groupdocs.redaction/redactor/methods/apply/index
[15]: https://apireference.groupdocs.com/redaction/net/groupdocs.redaction/redactor/methods/save/index
[16]: https://purchase.groupdocs.com/temporary-license
[17]: https://docs.groupdocs.com/redaction
[18]: https://forum.groupdocs.com/
[19]: https://blog.groupdocs.com/2021/08/04/find-and-replace-text-in-documents-using-csharp/
[20]: https://blog.groupdocs.com/2020/11/27/find-and-remove-watermarks-from-documents-in-csharp/
[21]: https://blog.groupdocs.com/2021/06/23/annotate-word-documents-using-csharp/
