Whiteout PDF
Cover parts of a page and type over them. To remove for good, use Redact.
- 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
- Fixing a typo? Draw the box and type the correction on it in the same step.
- Page isn't white? Pick a color that matches it so the patch blends in.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add the PDF with something on it you want covered — a wrong figure, an old address, a note in the margin.
Set it up the way you want
Draw a box over the area and pick the cover color. It does not have to be white, and often should not be.
Download the result
Download the document. The area is covered, and anything you typed into the box is written on top. The original text is still underneath in the file — use Redact PDF when it must not be read.
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 Whiteout PDF
- Is the text underneath really gone?
- No, and this matters more than anything else on this page. Whiteout draws a rectangle on top. The original text is still in the file and comes back with copy-paste, with text extraction, or with any search tool. To remove it for good, use Redact PDF, which deletes the content itself.
- Then when should I use this instead of redaction?
- When you are correcting, not concealing. Covering a stale price to write the new one, hiding a stray mark on a scan, tidying a form before printing. Anything where it would not matter if someone read what was underneath.
- Why can I choose a color instead of white?
- Because pages are not always white. On a cream scan, a colored form or a shaded table row, a white rectangle is a bright patch that announces itself. Matching the background makes the correction sit quietly on the page.