Redact PDF
Black out personal data for good — ID, passport, bank, card and tax numbers, phones, emails, dates of birth, or any area you mark.
How to use it
- Drop a PDF. ID and passport numbers, bank, card and tax numbers, phone numbers, emails and dates of birth are found and boxed for you.
- Check each page: drag a box to move it, its corner to resize, × to remove it, or drag on the page to draw a new one.
- Confirm the last page and download. What is under the black boxes is removed from the file, not just covered.
Troubleshooting
Nothing was found on a scanned page.
A scan has no text to search. Draw the boxes by hand, or run OCR first so the numbers can be found.
One page came out as a picture.
When a page holds something that can't be edited in place — an unusual font, or a non-JPEG image under a box — that page alone is rebuilt as a picture with the boxes painted in, so nothing can leak. The other pages keep their text, sharpness and size.
Frequently asked
Is the text really gone, or just hidden?
Gone. The text under each box is taken out of the page itself, image pixels under it are blackened, notes and links under it are dropped, and a black box is drawn on top — nothing replaced is kept anywhere in the file. The rest of the page stays as it was. If a page holds something that can't be edited in place, that page alone is rebuilt as a picture with the boxes painted in.
Does it find the personal data for me?
It proposes boxes over ID numbers (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, mainland, Singapore, Malaysia, US, UK), passport numbers, bank accounts, IBAN, SWIFT and card numbers, tax and company numbers, phone numbers, emails and dates of birth. You check every page and can move, add or remove boxes before anything is removed.
Is my file uploaded?
No. Finding and removing both run on your device.