Redact PDF without uploading
Delete text and images from a PDF for real, not cover them — without uploading it.
Drop the PDF you need to black out
Mark what to remove and it is deleted from the file, not covered — in your browser.
PDF — up to 100 MB
Delete text and images from a PDF for real, not cover them — without uploading it.
Drop the PDF you need to black out
Mark what to remove and it is deleted from the file, not covered — in your browser.
PDF — up to 100 MB
Black out names, numbers, and anything else you don't want seen — and actually remove it, not just cover it. Click a page, drag boxes over the content, and the areas you mark are permanently deleted when you export. Your file never leaves your device.
About this tool
Step 1
Drag your PDF onto the page, or click to browse. Reorder or drop pages first if you need to.
Step 2
Click a page to open it, then drag black boxes over any text or images you want gone. Add as many as you like across as many pages as you need.
Step 3
Click Redact & Preview. Each marked page is flattened to an image with the content removed, so nothing survives underneath. Preview, then download. Nothing is uploaded.
Redaction removes what you can see — but your name is still in the file. Clean the metadata too.
Private by construction
The document you are redacting is the one you least want on someone else's server.
Most redaction tools upload your file to a server — the exact opposite of what you want when the document is sensitive enough to redact. This tool never uploads: it renders and rebuilds each redacted page locally in your browser and hands the result straight back to you.
No file, page, or filename ever reaches a server. Check your network tab — it stays empty.
Turn off your Wi-Fi and it still works. That is the simplest proof there is no upload.
No account, no copy kept, no watermark. Close the tab and it is gone.
Really removed. Each page you mark is rendered to an image with the black boxes painted on before the image is saved, so the original text and graphics under the box are not part of the output. You can't select, copy, or recover them.
No. Redaction happens entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded, stored, or seen by anyone.
Only the pages you redact. Those pages become flat images (so the removed content can't survive), while pages you didn't mark keep their original selectable text.
After downloading, try selecting or searching the text on a redacted page, or run text extraction on it — because the page is now an image with the content painted out, there is no hidden text layer to find.
Built by Immplify — we also make free tools for visas, green cards and travel history.