How to redact a PDF
- Choose the PDF. Enter its password if it has one.
- Type the words to hide, or tick emails, long numbers and bank codes to find them automatically.
- Click any text in the preview to hide or show it, and draw boxes over photos, signatures or scanned areas.
- Download. The file is checked before you get it.
Redact a bank statement
Landlords, employers and lenders often need one or two transactions, not your whole spending history. Pick Hide everything except matching rows, tick Only hide rows inside tables, and list the words that identify the rows to keep, such as salary or rent. The statement header, balances, summary and footer stay readable, and transactions that wrap onto several lines or pages are kept or hidden together. Some visa offices, courts and mortgage lenders only accept complete, unaltered statements, so ask before you send a redacted copy.
Why this is real redaction
- Drawing a black box in a PDF editor leaves the text underneath; anyone can copy it out. Here the hidden text is deleted from the file.
- The rest of each page keeps its original text, so it stays sharp, selectable and searchable instead of turning into a blurry image.
- After export the PDF is read back like any PDF reader would. If hidden text could still be extracted from a page, that page is saved as an image instead.
- Comments, form fields, thumbnails, bookmarks, attachments and document metadata are removed.
- The site has no server code, no analytics and no cookies. Its security policy stops the page from connecting to any other site, and it keeps working offline after the first visit.
Check before you share
Open the redacted file, select all text and paste it into a note, then search for something you hid. It should not be there. Automatic search can miss text, such as a number split in an unusual way, so look through every page before you send it.