Permanent Redaction
Genuinely remove sensitive content by rasterising the affected pages and burning black rectangles into the bitmap — the underlying text is gone, not just hidden.
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How does the Permanent Redaction work?
Properly remove sensitive content from a PDF — not just visually mask it. The standard "Redact PDF" tool draws black rectangles on top of the page; the underlying text is still there and can be recovered by anyone who copies and pastes from the file. This tool does it the right way: pages with redactions are rasterised (re-rendered as a high-resolution image), the black rectangles are burned onto the bitmap, and the original text-bearing page is replaced with the image. The text under the redaction rectangle no longer exists in the file. Pages without any redactions pass through unchanged so the file size stays reasonable.
🔒 Security & Privacy
All processing happens on your device. Your files never leave your browser, never touch our servers, and are not stored anywhere. Close the tab and the file is gone.
📱 Use it on any device
Works in any modern browser — Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, and tablets. No installation, no app to download. Just open the page and start.
⚡ Quick & easy
Drag, drop, click. Most files process in seconds, not minutes. No watermarks added to your output, no per-day limits, and the tool always shows the result before asking you to download.
🎁 Always free, no signup
Free to use, every time. No account creation, no email required, no “trial” that converts to a paid plan. We make money from ads so you don’t have to pay.
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