Redact PDF Permanently — Offline, In Your Browser
Drop a PDF, drag black rectangles over the regions you want gone, and save a redacted copy — all in your browser. The rectangles are baked into the page pixels: copy/paste behind the black bar returns nothing, because the underlying text no longer exists in the output. This is how redaction is supposed to work and how Manafort's lawyers famously didn't do it. Use this for court filings, FOIA responses, bank statements, medical records, or anything else you can't legally upload to a cloud tool.
Drop your PDF here
or click to browse
Don't trust us — verify it yourself
Every claim on this page is auditable in 30 seconds:
- Open browser DevTools (F12 or Cmd+Opt+I).
- Switch to the Network tab and tick Preserve log.
- Run the tool with your file.
- You'll see requests for the page, library code, and ad pixels — never for your PDF.
Even better: load the page, then turn off Wi-Fi. The tool still works, because there's nowhere for the file to go.
FAQ
How is this different from drawing a black rectangle in Acrobat?
Most “redactors” draw an annotation on top of the original page. Anyone can delete the annotation and read the text. Our redaction rasterizes the page first, paints into the pixels, then rebuilds the PDF. The underlying text doesn't exist in the output.
Are the redactions reversible?
No. The pixels behind the black bar are gone.
Why does the output sometimes look softer?
Because we re-rasterize each page at 2x to bake in the redactions. For most documents this is invisible. For very crisp diagrams, you may notice a slight difference.