PDF Redact & Sanitize Tool

PDF Redact — Black Out Sensitive Information

Permanently remove and black out confidential text, financial figures, signatures, and personal data from PDF documents directly in your browser.

🔒 100% In-Browser Processing: Your files never leave your device — everything runs locally in your browser using open-source libraries. Nothing is uploaded to our server. Redactions are burned directly into the document locally — zero risk of data leakage.

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Select or Drag & Drop a PDF to Redact

Draw black rectangles over sensitive content • All pages supported

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💡 Tip: Click and drag your mouse over any text or region to draw a blackout redaction box. 0 redaction box(es) on this page

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Permanent Redaction vs. Simple Black Highlighting

Many users mistakenly "redact" documents by drawing black shapes over text in word processors or basic viewers. In those cases, the underlying text remains in the document stream and can still be highlighted, copied, or read by anyone. This tool permanently rasterizes and burns the blackout zones into the page imagery, stripping all underlying text strings from the redacted coordinates so your secrets can never be recovered.

Permanent Document Redaction and Sanitization

Safely remove sensitive figures, personal names, account numbers, and signatures from PDFs. Unlike cosmetic highlighters, our redaction tool permanently strips the underlying text bytes for total privacy compliance.