# Hide underlying text and comments in notes

**URL:** <https://pdfjs.community/t/hide-underlying-text-and-comments-in-notes/91>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [June 25, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/hide-underlying-text-and-comments-in-notes/91 "2020-06-25T04:38:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![rabiraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@rabiraj](https://pdfjs.community/u/rabiraj)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/hide-underlying-text-and-comments-in-notes/91/1 "2020-06-25T04:38:04Z")

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How can we hide underlying text and comments in notes. In our workflow, not all users should be able to see it.  
When we highlight certain text, certain users should not be able to see what text is highlighted, even in notes

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**Author:** ![asafonov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@asafonov](https://pdfjs.community/u/asafonov)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/hide-underlying-text-and-comments-in-notes/91/2 "2020-06-25T14:58:21Z")

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I would refer to this guide for all annotation permissions: [https://pdfjs.express/documentation/annotation/annotation-permissions](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/annotation/annotation-permissions).

You can set them to read only, lock contents and so on.