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The Redact PDF tool allows you to easily permanently sanitize, blackout, or whiteout sensitive text, ssns, and regular expressions inside your pdf offline. Right in your web browser. This tool is designed to be incredibly fast, secure, and user-friendly, giving you exactly what you need without having to download expensive software.
What You Can Accomplish
- True sanitization: permanently destroys underlying text layer & metadata
- Smart pattern presets for SSN, Email, Phone, Credit Cards & Custom RegEx
- High-definition canvas rasterization (2.0x DPI scale)
- Sub-string coordinate tracking with +3px padding against glyph bleed
- 100% serverless browser processing — files never leave your device
Technical Details
If you're curious about how this works, we rely entirely on your device's browser to process the data locally. Whether you are working with JPEG files or PNG files, processing them locally maintains the absolute highest image fidelity possible.
Understanding the Tool Settings
This tool offers advanced configuration options so you can get exactly the result you need. Here is a breakdown of what each setting does:
Word Boundary Matching
Select the Whole Words Only option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Select the Partial Match option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Case Sensitivity
Select the Case-Insensitive option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Select the Case-Sensitive option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Redaction Fill Color
Select the Black Fill option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Select the White Fill option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Sanitization Level
Select the True Sanitization option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Select the Visual Masking option to apply this specific setting to your document.
Having Trouble? Try This Workflow
Sometimes, you might want to perform a highly complex task that this specific tool wasn't built for. For example, if you are trying to combine very specific pages from multiple different files, or if you need to isolate certain pages before processing them, the best method is a two-step approach:
- Step 1: Isolate your pages. First, navigate to our Split PDF orExtract Pages tool from our homepage. Upload your files there, extract the exact pages you need, and save the resulting files to your computer.
- Step 2: Process your pieces. Once you have your isolated, clean PDF pieces, come back to this Redact PDF tool (or the Merge PDF tool) and upload your newly extracted files. You will have total control over exactly what gets processed!
100% Secure and Private
We understand that your documents often contain highly sensitive information. That is why the Redact PDF tool utilizes cutting-edge client-side processing technology. All the heavy lifting happens entirely on your own device. Your PDF files are never uploaded to our servers, ensuring absolute privacy.
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