How to remove digital signatures from a PDF

<p>As a result of digital transformation, organizations increasingly use digital signatures in place of handwritten signatures.</p>
<p>Organizations can use authenticated — those certified by a certificate authority (<a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/certificate-authority”>CA</a>) — or nonauthenticated digital signatures to create legally binding agreements. However, users might need to remove or redact signatures to keep signers’ information private or revise mistakes within documents.</p>
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<section class=”section main-article-chapter” data-menu-title=”How to remove digital signatures using Adobe”>
<h2 class=”section-title”><i class=”icon” data-icon=”1″></i>How to remove digital signatures using Adobe</h2>
<p>Adobe software offers users a relatively straightforward way to remove digital signatures from PDFs. However, the process only works under the following conditions:</p>
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<li>The person deleting the signature is the only signer.</li>
<li>The signer didn’t lock the file when saving it.</li>
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<p>If these conditions apply, users can take the following steps to remove their signatures:</p>
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<li>Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat.</li>
<li>Navigate to the <b>Edit</b> tab.</li>
<li>Select the signature with <b>Control-Click</b> on Windows or <b>Command-Click</b> on macOS.</li>
<li>Select <b>Delete</b> or <b>Clear Signature</b> from the context menu.</li>
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