Redact PDF

Real. The marked text is cut out of the page content, marked areas of images are painted over and re-encoded, and overlapping annotations are removed - then the cover is drawn. Nothing readable is left under the rectangle.

Yes - search for a word or phrase, or sweep for personal data: e-mail addresses, phone numbers, bank accounts, tax and ID numbers, dates. Every hit is shown for review before anything is removed.

Nothing is uploaded: the file is opened and processed inside your browser and never leaves your device. Close the tab and it is gone. For the documents that need redacting, that is not optional.

Only if the scan has a text layer - one put there by OCR, for instance; that invisible text is exactly the kind that needs covering, and the search reaches it. A scan without one is pixels, so mark those areas by hand: the marked part of the image is repainted, not merely covered.

No. The removal has already happened by the time anything is drawn, so the cover is yours to choose: a bar in any colour, or nothing at all, leaving a clean gap where the text was. Inside an image the marked pixels have to become something, so there they turn white.

Yes. Drop in a .docx, .xlsx or .pptx file or an image (JPG, PNG, WebP...) and it is turned into a PDF in your browser as it arrives - an image onto an A4 page - then handled like any other PDF; nothing is uploaded. The conversion is our own, so the result can differ slightly from Office's own PDF export: a font may be substituted and charts are left out. The file list shows a warning when something couldn't be carried over.