PDF Redact Tools

Choose a tool for PDF redaction

• Redact PDF handles selected text, search matches, drawn regions, and whole pages. Review every target before applying the redaction, then flatten the redacted pages so the marked content is permanently removed.

Remove sensitive information from a PDF

Choose the target that matches the content you need to remove. Select text for a specific passage, search for matching text when the same content appears in several places, draw a region over a page area, or choose whole pages when an entire page must be removed.

Before: selected text
After: flattened redacted page

Review every target before applying the redactions. Check for missed search matches and regions placed over the wrong part of the page. After you apply the redactions, the pages are irreversibly flattened, so keep the original PDF if you may need the unredacted content later.

What Redact PDF checks before download

Redact PDF can optionally strip metadata and hidden annotations from the document. It can also run a verification report after the selected text, search matches, drawn regions, or whole pages have been processed.

PDF Redact Tools runs these redaction tasks locally in your browser, with no upload. The document stays on the device during this workflow.

Where PDF redaction comes up

• A legal or operations team removes selected text before sending a copy to another party, then reviews each target and runs the verification report.
• A records worker searches for repeated text, checks every match, and downloads the PDF after the pages are flattened.
• A project team removes a whole page or draws a region over a page area before sharing a copy, with metadata and hidden annotations stripped when needed.
• Someone preparing a public version keeps the original PDF separately and distributes the redacted copy.

When to use PDF Tools instead

Choose PDF Tools when the job is something other than redaction, such as compressing, converting, editing, merging, splitting, repairing, or extracting text from a PDF. Stay in PDF Redact Tools when the task is to remove selected content, matching text, page regions, or whole pages and then verify the result.

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