Permanently remove sensitive information from PDF documents. Black out text, images, and areas to protect confidential data.
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← Explore Available ToolsSelect the PDF containing sensitive information. Your file stays on your device — nothing is uploaded.
Select text or draw rectangles over the areas you want to permanently remove. Preview the redactions.
Apply redactions and download the clean PDF. The redacted content is permanently and irreversibly removed.
When sharing documents, you often need to remove sensitive information — social security numbers, financial data, personal addresses, or confidential business details. PDFably's Redact tool permanently removes this content.
Unlike simply covering text with a black box, proper redaction removes the underlying data from the file entirely. The redacted content cannot be recovered, copied, or searched.
Legal teams redact privileged information before document disclosure. Government agencies remove classified content from public records. HR departments sanitize employee records before sharing.
Healthcare providers redact patient information for research sharing. Financial institutions remove account numbers from statements. Businesses protect trade secrets in shared documents.
Yes. PDFably permanently removes the redacted content from the PDF. The information cannot be recovered by any means.
A black box only covers content visually — the data still exists underneath and can be extracted. Redaction permanently deletes the underlying data.
Yes. You can search for specific text and redact all instances across the entire document at once.
Yes. You can draw redaction areas over any part of the page, including images, logos, and photographs.
Redacted areas are replaced with black rectangles. The rest of the page layout remains unchanged.