PDF Tools
Redact a PDF
Black out sensitive parts of a PDF and remove them for good — not just cover them. The marked content is destroyed, so it cannot be copied or recovered, and the file never leaves your browser. No account, no email.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the content really gone, or just hidden?
- Really gone. The most common redaction mistake is drawing a black rectangle over text that is still selectable underneath — people have leaked secrets this way for years. This tool doesn't do that: a page you mark is flattened to an image with the black burned into the pixels, so there is no text, no hidden object, nothing to copy or recover under the mark.
- Does my file get uploaded?
- No — and for redaction that is the whole point. The document you are redacting is exactly the kind you must not hand to someone else's server. Everything happens in your browser; the file never leaves your device and never reaches us.
- What's the catch?
- A page you redact becomes an image, so the other text on that page is no longer selectable (it is now part of the picture). That is the honest cost of true redaction, and the tool tells you before you download. Pages you don't mark are left completely untouched — their text stays selectable.
- Can I redact several areas and several pages?
- Yes. Draw as many boxes as you need, across any pages. Only the pages you actually mark are flattened; every other page is copied exactly as it was.
- Can I search for a name or number to redact every instance?
- Yes. Type a word, name, or number into the search box and every occurrence across the document is marked at once — all on your device, nothing uploaded. This reads the PDF's text layer, so it works on documents with real text; a scanned page has no text to search, so for scans you draw the boxes by hand (or run OCR first).