True Redact PDF
Drop a PDF, drag black rectangles over the regions you want gone, and save a redacted copy. The rectangles are baked into the page pixels — copy/paste behind the black bar returns nothing, because there's nothing there.
Drop your PDF here
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Drag on the page to draw a redaction. Click an existing rectangle to remove it.
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.