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Upload the PDF document you want to redact
Remove sensitive content
Permanently redact confidential information from your PDF documents. Select areas to black out and protect sensitive data.
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How it works
Mark areas
Choose Add redaction and drag to select the areas you want removed
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Process and download your redacted PDF with the sensitive content gone for good
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Highlighting lays a see-through color over text, so the content stays readable and selectable. Redaction removes the content for good and replaces it with a solid black box, so the original text cannot be recovered, copied, or searched.
Yes. Once you apply the redactions and download the file, the content under each redaction box is destroyed. No PDF editor or forensic tool can recover it, so the file is safe to share.
Yes. The tool suits GDPR, HIPAA, and other rules that require personal information to be removed before a document is shared. Everything runs in your browser, so sensitive data never leaves your device.
You can redact anything visible on a page, including text, images, signatures, tables, and handwritten notes. Draw a redaction box over the area and it is blacked out for good in the final document.
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