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PDF Redaction Features

PDF Redaction Features

RedactionPDF gives you a focused workflow to remove sensitive information from PDF files. Use manual redaction, review-first auto detection, metadata cleanup, temporary processing, and file auto-deletion to prepare safer PDFs before sharing.

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Manual RedactionReview-first Auto DetectionMetadata CleanupFile Auto-DeletionNo AI Training

Everything you need to redact PDFs online

RedactionPDF is designed 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:

EmailsPhone numbersSSN-like patternsIP addressesCredit card-like numbersIBANsSWIFT codesRouting numbersAccount numbers by labelTax or VAT numbers by labelInvoice numbers by label
Note: Automatic detection works best with text-based PDFs. For scanned or image-based PDFs, you can still redact visible areas manually.

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.

Author
Creator
Producer
Title
Subject
Keywords
Creation date
Modification date
Custom metadata fields

Temporary file handling and auto-deletion

Original PDFs are deleted after processing.
Redacted PDFs stay available for up to 1 hour.

HTTPS upload
Temporary processing
Original PDF deletion after processing
Redacted PDF available for up to 1 hour
Download-triggered deletion scheduling
Failed job cleanup

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.

Original filename
Page count
Manual redaction count
Auto-detected redaction count
Total redactions applied
Metadata cleanup status
Processed timestamp
Redacted file expiration
Disclaimer: The summary is provided for user reference. It is not a legal compliance certification.

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

FeatureManual RedactionAuto Detection
Best forAny visible areaCommon text patterns
Works on scanned PDFsYes, for visible areasNot currently for image-only text
User controlFull manual controlReview suggestions before applying
ExamplesSignatures, images, clauses, custom areasEmails, phones, SSNs, account numbers
Recommended usePrecise final reviewFast 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:

HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, or ISO certification
Legal compliance certification
Guaranteed detection of every sensitive item
OCR-based auto detection for scanned PDFs in the standard workflow
100% risk-free document handling

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.

Upload PDF to start redacting

Drag and drop your PDF here, or browse from your device.

Secure upload
Temporary processing
Metadata cleanup
No AI training
Max file: 10MBMax pages: 10Daily limit: 3 jobsAvailable: 1 hour

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.

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