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Redaction tools

Draw over text, images, signatures, stamps or any visual content. Marks are only previews until secure export.

Appearance & reason

FillReason

Overlay text

Marked areas

No redactions marked yet.

ImportantThe red boxes in the editor are annotations for review only. Security comes from Secure export, which rebuilds the PDF from rendered page images and burns the redactions into those pixels.

Find text

Word, phrase or regex

Case sensitive Regex

PII pattern scanner

Pattern detection is a review aid, not a guarantee. It intentionally favors reviewability over silently auto-redacting.

Findings

Search or scan to see potential redactions.

Secure sanitization

Secure mode is always onEvery page is rendered to pixels and written into a brand-new PDF. This intentionally discards selectable text, form fields, comments, links, JavaScript, attachments, hidden layers and source metadata.

Render qualityPage image formatJPEG quality

Pre-export checks

Redaction marks0

Pages affected0

Source fingerprint—

Ready when your marks are reviewed.

Post-export verification

Output opened successfully—

Extractable text items—

Output pages—

Annotations / form widgets—

Embedded attachments—

Output fingerprint

No export yet.

Trade-offThe sanitized PDF is image-only for security. Text selection, form fields, links and accessibility structure are intentionally removed. Run OCR later only if you need a new searchable layer after reviewing the redacted result.

Redact PDFs. Actually remove it.

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