PDF Redaction & Privacy Protection
Redact a PDF Free
redact PDFs. text-based PDFs. manual redaction boxes.
Everything you need to redact PDFs online
RedactionPDF is built for privacy-sensitive document workflows. It helps you mark visible content, review detected sensitive data, clean hidden metadata, and download a redacted PDF without installing desktop software.
Manual PDF Redaction
Draw redaction boxes over names, signatures, addresses, account numbers, confidential clauses, images, or any visible area you want to remove.
Review-first Auto Detection
Find common sensitive patterns in text-based PDFs, then choose which suggestions to add as redaction boxes before applying changes.
Metadata Cleanup
Remove hidden PDF metadata such as author, creator, subject, keywords, timestamps, and custom fields during export.
File Auto-Deletion
Original PDFs are deleted after processing. Redacted PDFs stay available for up to 1 hour.
Redaction Summary
Review a processing summary with redaction counts, metadata cleanup status, timestamps, and temporary file handling details.
No AI Training
Uploaded documents are not used to train AI models or manually reviewed as part of the standard workflow.
Manual PDF redaction for precise control
Manual redaction gives you direct control over what gets removed. You can draw boxes over any visible area of a PDF page, including text, signatures, images, tables, notes, and confidential sections.
Use manual redaction to remove names, addresses, signatures, account numbers, confidential contract clauses, payment details, images, notes, annotations, or any visible area on the page.
Review-first auto detection for text-based PDFs
For text-based PDFs, RedactionPDF can suggest common sensitive data patterns so you do not have to find every item manually. Suggestions are not applied automatically. You stay in control and decide what should be redacted.
Detectable patterns in text-based PDFs:
Remove hidden PDF metadata before sharing
PDF files can contain hidden metadata that is not visible on the page. This may include author names, creator software, producer details, timestamps, subjects, keywords, and custom metadata fields.
RedactionPDF can clean standard PDF metadata during export, helping you reduce hidden document information before sharing a file.
Temporary file handling and auto-deletion
Original PDFs are deleted after processing. Redacted PDFs stay available for up to 1 hour.
Redaction summary for better review
After processing, RedactionPDF can show a summary of what happened during the redaction workflow. This helps you confirm the number of redactions applied, whether metadata cleanup was enabled, and when the file was processed.
No AI training on your documents
RedactionPDF does not use uploaded documents to train AI models. Sensitive data detection is designed to find common patterns in text-based PDFs, not to train models on your files.
Manual redaction vs auto detection
| Feature | Manual Redaction | Auto Detection |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Any visible area | Common text patterns |
| Works on scanned PDFs | Yes, for visible areas | Not currently for image-only text |
| User control | Full manual control | Review suggestions before applying |
| Examples | Signatures, images, clauses, custom areas | Emails, phones, SSNs, account numbers |
| Recommended use | Precise final review | Fast first pass |
Clear boundaries, no exaggerated claims
RedactionPDF is built to help with privacy-sensitive PDF redaction workflows, but it is not a legal compliance certification service.
RedactionPDF does not claim:
Try RedactionPDF features on your own PDF
Upload a PDF, review sensitive data suggestions, add manual redaction boxes, clean metadata, and download a redacted PDF.
Redact a PDF Free
redact PDFs. text-based PDFs. manual redaction boxes.
Free redaction: up to 10MB and 10 pages. Daily limit: 3 jobs.
Original PDFs are deleted after processing. Redacted PDFs stay available for up to 1 hour.
Related Guides
Upload and redact your PDF
Step-by-step workflow guide
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Clean hidden document details
Remove account numbers and transactions
Hide names, signatures, and compensation
Remove personal data for AI tools
Temporary processing and auto-delete workflow
PDF Redaction Feature FAQ
Automatic detection works with text-based PDFs; scanned or image-only PDFs can still be marked manually.