Delete Barcode signatures from documents

Overview

GroupDocs.Signature provides BarcodeSignature class to manipulate barcode signatures and delete them from the documents over Delete method.
Please be aware that Delete method modifies the same document that was passed to constructor of Signature class.

How to delete Barcode signature from the document

Here are the steps to delete Barcode signature from the document with GroupDocs.Signature:

This example shows how to delete Barcode signature that was found using Search method.

using (Signature signature = new Signature("signed.docx"))
{
    BarcodeSearchOptions options = new BarcodeSearchOptions();
    // search for Barcode signatures in document
    List<BarcodeSignature> signatures = signature.Search<BarcodeSignature>(options);
    if (signatures.Count > 0)
    {
        BarcodeSignature barcodeSignature = signatures[0];
        bool result = signature.Delete(barcodeSignature);
        if (result)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(
                $"Signature with Barcode '{barcodeSignature.Text}' and " +
                $"encode type '{barcodeSignature.EncodeType.TypeName}' " +
                $"was deleted from document ['{fileName}']."
            );
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine(
                $"Signature was not deleted from the document! " +
                $"Signature with Barcode '{barcodeSignature.Text}' and " +
                $"encode type '{barcodeSignature.EncodeType.TypeName}' " +
                $"was not found!"
            );
        }
    }
}

Advanced Usage Topics

To learn more about document eSign features, please refer to the advanced usage section.

More resources

GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

Free Online Apps

Along with the full-featured .NET library, we provide simple but powerful free online apps.

To sign PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents you can use the online apps from the GroupDocs.Signature App Product Family.