Redact PDF
Permanently black out sensitive text — not just a visual cover
Drop your PDF here
or click to browse — draw boxes to permanently remove sensitive content
Permanently black out sensitive text — not just a visual cover
Drop your PDF here
or click to browse — draw boxes to permanently remove sensitive content
Need to redact a PDF before sharing it — hiding a social security number, an account number, or a name? This tool draws solid black boxes exactly where you want, then permanently rasterizes those pages so the covered content is gone, not just hidden underneath a shape. Pages with no redaction boxes are left completely untouched, at full original quality. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing is ever uploaded.
Redacted pages are flattened to a flat image, so there is no selectable text or vector data left underneath the black boxes — unlike a simple cover-up.
Only pages with at least one redaction box are flattened. Every other page keeps its original text, fonts and quality.
Click and drag directly on the page — draw as many boxes as needed, on any page.
All processing happens in your browser. Your PDF never touches a server.
Yes — this is the key difference. Edit PDF's shapes are drawn on top of the page as a visual cover; the original text underneath is technically still present in the file and can potentially be recovered. Redact PDF instead flattens the entire page to a picture, so there is no original text or vector content left underneath at all.
No. Only pages that have at least one redaction box drawn on them are flattened to an image. Every other page in the document is left completely unchanged.
Yes, before downloading — click the small × on a box to remove it, or use Clear Page to remove all boxes on the current page.
Yes — encrypted PDFs are rendered the same way this tool already flattens marked pages, so redaction works the same either way.