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GroupDocs.Signature provides TextSignature class to manipulate text 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, so the example below copies the signed document first and deletes the signature from the copy.

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

• Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter;
• Instantiate TextSearchOptions object with desired properties;
• Call search method; the signatures property of the returned SearchResult holds the found TextSignature objects;
• Select from list TextSignature object(s) that should be removed from the document;
• Call Signature object delete method and pass one or several signatures to it; for a single signature it returns True when the signature was deleted.

This example shows how to delete Text signature that was found using search method.

import shutil

from groupdocs.signature import Signature
from groupdocs.signature.options import TextSearchOptions


def delete_text_signature():
    # delete() saves the changes into the opened document, so work on a copy
    shutil.copy("signed.docx", "text_signature_deleted.docx")

    with Signature("text_signature_deleted.docx") as signature:
        options = TextSearchOptions()
        # Return only signatures added by GroupDocs.Signature, not the document's own text
        options.skip_external = True
        signatures = signature.search([options]).signatures
        print(f"Found {len(signatures)} text signature(s)")
        if not signatures:
            return

        text_signature = signatures[0]
        if signature.delete(text_signature):
            print(f"Deleted text signature '{text_signature.text}' at "
                  f"({text_signature.left}, {text_signature.top})")
        else:
            print(f"Text signature '{text_signature.text}' was not deleted")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    delete_text_signature()

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

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