Securely erase sensitive text, CNP, social security numbers, passwords, emails, names, or custom keywords from your PDFs. Generates a clean, sanitized PDF with permanently scrubbed text and image layers. Combine redaction with other security tools like signature removal, metadata sanitization, or encryption simultaneously in a single session.
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ℹ️ The entire page text layer is removed to guarantee no sensitive content remains (image-only output).
⚠️ Note: If your PDF is an image or scanned document, text cannot be found. We recommend selecting "Rebuild & Repair PDF" alongside Redact for OCR, but this will increase processing time.
DocInspector deletes sensitive text at the binary level, preventing recovery by hackers or forensic tools.
Unlike poor editors that merely draw a black box over text (leaving the underlying text scrapable), DocInspector cuts the text completely out of the PDF structure, replacing it with a solid black rectangle in the page stream.
Enter custom keywords or patterns. The engine scans the PDF's text layers, finds matches, and automatically redacts all occurrences across thousands of pages in batch.
Redaction strips metadata, hidden search indices, and OCR text layers around the redacted keywords. This prevents leakage through copy-paste or document properties.
Our online tool is built on the same isolation principles as the desktop app. Here is the exact data flow from your browser to the processed output.
Redact PDFs online. Under settings, enter custom keywords or phrases. Process recursively across folders. Combine redaction with signature stripping, metadata sanitization, and password lock in one run.
No. The text is permanently removed from the document's code. There is no hidden layer containing the original text.
If you run OCR on the page first (making it text-searchable), the redaction engine can locate and redact the text.
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