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Redact PDF

Black out text and images so the content is gone from the file's bytes.

Drop a PDF here

Pages appear straight away.

Read on this device. No account, no upload.

Settings

Nothing starts until you press the button.

Areas to remove

Add a file to mark what goes.

Confirm the words are gone

Word or phrase

Adding a word does not find it. Mark the area it sits in; this is the check that the finished file no longer contains it.

Match upper and lower case exactlyChanges the check onlyLeave this off to check every casing. Only unaccented letters are folded, so a word with accents is checked as you typed it.

Document details

Remove the document's detailsCannot be undoneThe title, author, dates and producer are stored beside the pages. Left in place, they can name what you just took out of them.

What you get

The removal cannot be undone

Nothing in the finished file can bring the marked content back. Your original file is not touched, so keep it until you have opened the result and checked it.

Each page you mark is rebuilt without the content inside your areas, so there is no black box to lift off. Text you did not mark is laid back over the page and stays searchable.

The finished file is decompressed and searched for every word above. If one is still there you get an error instead of a file.

Add a file to start