Redact PDF
Actually remove sensitive parts — not just draw a box over them.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Find common details picks out emails, phone numbers, card numbers and IBANs in one tap.
- Check every black box on the pages and remove any you want to keep before you save.
- After saving, run Check a redaction with the same words to confirm they are really gone.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Next, run Flatten PDF → Remove PDF metadata on the result back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add the document you need to redact. Do this before sharing it, not after — once a file has gone out, redacting your copy changes nothing.
Set it up the way you want
Search for a word, a name or common details like emails and card numbers to mark every match, then draw boxes over anything else. The text underneath is removed from the file, not covered up.
Download the result
Download the redacted file, then run Verify redaction on it. Checking is a separate step because the failure here is silent and expensive.
More than one change to make?
Open the editor: change the text that’s already there, fill and sign, cover up and rearrange pages — one file, undo for every step.
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Open the editorQuestions about Redact PDF
- Is the text really gone or just hidden?
- Really gone. Drawing a black rectangle in a normal editor leaves the text underneath, where anyone can select and copy it — that is how several well-known leaks happened. Here the content is removed from the file itself.
- Why is there a separate tool to verify it?
- Because a redaction that failed looks exactly like one that worked. Verify redaction searches the page text, the metadata, annotations, form values, bookmarks and attachment names for the words you removed, so you find out before the recipient does.
- Does the file leave my device?
- No. Redaction happens without transmission, which matters here more than anywhere: sending a document somewhere to have its secrets removed defeats the purpose.