PDF Redact — Black Out Sensitive Information in PDF

Redact sensitive information in your PDF files. Draw boxes over text, images or IDs to black them out. Runs in your browser.
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Drag on the page to draw a black box over sensitive text. You can mark multiple boxes across pages.

Download creates a flattened PDF image, so covered content is not selectable or searchable.

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Tool Introduction

PDF redaction lets you cover sensitive information - names, IDs, account numbers, signatures, or confidential paragraphs - with solid black boxes before sharing a document.

Everything runs locally in your browser with pdf.js and pdf-lib. The downloaded file is flattened into page images, so marked content is no longer selectable or searchable in the output PDF.