Redact PDF
Permanently remove matching text from a PDF before sharing, locally.
Files are processed on your device and are never uploaded.
Files are processed on your device and are never uploaded.
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- Add your file(s) above.
- Redact PDF runs instantly in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.
- Download the result. That's it.
Don't take our word for it. Open your browser's DevTools (F12), click the Network tab, and run the tool. It stays empty, because the code that processes your file shipped to your browser along with this page — there's no server for it to travel to.
- Does this just draw a black box over the text?
- No, and that distinction matters: a drawn box leaves the original text underneath, recoverable by copy-paste or another extraction tool. This rebuilds every page as a flattened image with the matched text pixels overwritten, so the text is actually gone from the file, not just hidden.
- What is the tradeoff?
- Every page becomes an image, so all text in the output, not only the redacted parts, stops being selectable, searchable or copyable. That is the price of a real guarantee instead of a cosmetic one.
- Are my files uploaded to a server?
- No. Everything runs locally in your browser. You can verify it yourself: open DevTools and watch the Network tab while the tool runs. It stays empty the whole time. This also means the tools keep working offline once the page has loaded.
- What are the free limits?
- Free covers every tool at full quality with no watermark and no signup: single jobs, up to 3 files and 25 MB total. Pro adds batch queues (up to 50 files), jobs up to 200 MB, tool chains and saved presets, all from one license that also unlocks the browser extension.