Redact PDF Online – Permanently Black Out Text Free
Mark sensitive text and images and remove them for good. What is under the mark is destroyed, not just hidden. Free tool.
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Redact a PDF: step by step
Mark sensitive text and images and remove them for good. What is under the mark is destroyed, not just hidden. Free tool.
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Upload your PDF
Drop in a document and the redaction screen opens over it. Files are deleted after 2 hours.
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Mark what must go
Drag black boxes over the page by hand, type words into the search to mark every occurrence, or let Cards, Emails, Phones and Signatures detect the usual suspects automatically — the images chip catches handwritten signatures and stamps the text search cannot see — complete with Smart detect — validated IDs, labelled names and signatures. Click any mark to remove it.
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Apply the redaction
One press and the content under every mark is removed from the document itself — text, numbers and images cannot be copied, searched or recovered afterwards.
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Draw, find, or detect
Hand-drawn boxes, a word search, and automatic detection for cards, emails and phone numbers.
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Smart detect
One deterministic pass marks validated IDs, labelled names and signature images — free.
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Destroyed, not covered
Redacted words are removed from the file — not painted over — so they can never be copied back out.
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Private by default
No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.
Private and short-lived: every upload is erased automatically 72 hours after you last open it.