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    The following example demonstrates how to remove text from a PDF document.

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    public static void RemoveText()
    {
      Console.WriteLine( "=== REMOVE TEXT ===" );
      var outputFileName = "RemoveText.pdf";
      var outputPath = TextsSample.TextsSampleOutputDirectory + outputFileName;
    
      // Loads a PdfDocument.
      using( var pdfInput = PdfDocument.Load( TextsSample.TextsSampleResourcesDirectory + @"Two Page Text Only - from libre office.pdf" ) )
      {
        // Gets the first Page.
        var page = pdfInput.Pages.First();
    
        // Set the text to find.
        var textSearchOptions = new TextSearchOptions( "License" );
    
        // Get all the texts matching the search options in page 1.
        var textMatches = page.FindText( textSearchOptions );
    
        // Remove the found texts.
        page.RemoveText( textMatches );
    
        // Saves to the output document.
        pdfInput.SaveAs( outputPath );
        Console.WriteLine( $"Info exported to path: {outputFileName}" );
      }
    }


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