Redact a PDF
Black out names, numbers and whole areas. What is under a box is taken out of the file, and the saved file is checked for any trace. Nothing is uploaded.
Drag to reorder. Shift or Ctrl picks several. Double-click to open a page.
How to redact a PDF
Drop the PDF, press Find or drag boxes over a page, untick what should stay, and press Redact PDF. The text, pictures and drawings under each box are removed from the file, then the saved file is searched again for anything left.
Drop the PDF
Its pages show as a grid. A locked PDF asks for its password, and the redacted copy keeps it.
Find or mark
Find emails, phone numbers, bank, card and ID numbers, dates of birth, addresses and your own words, or names with an AI model on your device. Or drag a box over any part of a page.
Check and redact
Untick what should stay, open a page to see the boxes, and press Redact PDF.
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Questions
Gone. The letters under a box are cut from the page, pictures are cut, and the words are also taken out of bookmarks, comments, form fields, metadata and attachments. The saved file is then read again four ways, and it is not saved if any trace is found.
Some pages draw text or pictures in ways that can’t be cut safely. With Turn pages into pictures when needed on, such a page becomes a picture with the boxes burned in, and the summary names it. With it off, the redaction stops and names the page.
Yes, with boxes: the scan’s picture is cut under them. To find words in a scan, make it searchable first with Image and PDF to text.
A locked PDF is locked again with the same password. A signed PDF’s signatures stop matching, and the page warns before you save.
No. Finding, removing and checking all happen in your browser, and the name finder runs on your device.