Permanently black out names, numbers and text — the hidden content is deleted, not just covered. Free in your browser — no sign-up, no watermarks.
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The classic redaction disaster is a black rectangle drawn over text that anyone can still select and copy underneath. This tool does it properly: draw boxes over anything sensitive, and every page you mark is flattened to an image with the boxes burned in, so the underlying words and data are physically gone from the file. Pages you do not touch keep their crisp, selectable text.
PDF is the universal document format: it locks layout, fonts and images so a file looks identical on every device and printer. Scans, invoices, forms, e-books and reports all travel as PDF. Because a PDF is a container rather than an image, turning its pages into JPG or PNG pictures — or bundling pictures into a PDF — are among the most common file tasks there are.
The redaction failures that make headlines share one mistake: black rectangles drawn over text that is still underneath — one copy-paste away from disclosure. True redaction removes content. Here you drag boxes over anything to strike — names, account numbers, whole paragraphs — and when you apply, every marked page is flattened so the covered content is physically gone from the file, not hidden behind a shape.
The design is precise about scope: pages you marked are flattened; untouched pages keep their selectable text. Work methodically — use Prev/Next to walk every page, remember that the same name tends to recur, and check headers, footers and margins where identifying details hide. Then test like an adversary: try to select or search for the redacted text in the output. Silence is compliance.
Yes — completely free, with no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily quota. Processing happens in this browser, so the practical limit is the memory available on your device.
Yes — use Prev and Next to move through the document and draw black-out boxes on any pages you need. Only the pages you actually mark are flattened; every other page keeps its original selectable text.
Really gone — on any page you mark, the tool rebuilds that page as a flattened image with the black boxes baked in, so there is no text or object left behind the box to select, copy or recover. That is the difference between real redaction and simply drawing a rectangle.
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