Redact PDF
Permanently remove sensitive text or images from a PDF — not just cover them with a black box. Any page you mark is flattened to an image with the marked areas burned in, so nothing underneath can be recovered by copying text or removing a layer. Pages you don't mark are left exactly as they were.
How to use this tool
Redact PDF permanently removes sensitive text or images from a PDF — not a black box drawn over them, but the underlying content actually deleted from the file.
- Select a PDF file.
- Draw a box over each area you want redacted.
- Save the redacted PDF — the covered content is removed from the file, not just hidden visually.
- This matters because a black rectangle placed over text in most editors leaves the original text selectable and extractable underneath it.
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