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Frequently Asked Questions

The tool draws opaque black rectangles over the selected areas, making them invisible. The underlying text data may technically still exist in the PDF structure. For maximum security, flatten the PDF or use a print-to-PDF step after redaction.
Redaction preserves the document layout while hiding specific information. It's ideal for legal, medical, and financial documents where you need to share most of the content but hide sensitive details.
No! This is our key advantage. All redaction happens locally in your browser. Your sensitive document never leaves your device โ€” unlike server-based tools that require uploading.
Yes โ€” black rectangles are burned into the PDF, covering underlying content.
Yes โ€” draw as many redaction rectangles as needed.
No. All processing happens locally in your browser using pdf-lib and pdf.js.
There is no hard limit. Very large PDFs (100MB+) may slow down your browser.

Redact PDF: Black out sensitive information in PDFs

Redact PDF lets you black out sensitive information in pdfs. Upload a PDF and get a redacted PDF โ€” all processed locally in your browser, with no uploads and no sign-up.

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