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Drag black boxes over a PDF page and export it with the covered content destroyed.
The text and pictures under a box are destroyed. The page is re-made as an image, so what was covered cannot be copied out, searched for, or recovered from the file.
Add a PDF to see its pages, then drag black boxes over anything that should go and export — all in this tab, nothing is uploaded.
This tool blacks out parts of a PDF on your own device. Drag a box over anything you need hidden, move it, delete it, add as many as you like, and each box stays on the page you drew it on. On export, a page carrying at least one box is rendered as a picture at the resolution you chose and the boxes are painted onto that picture, so the text and images under them are destroyed rather than covered - they cannot be selected, copied, searched or pulled back out of the file. That comes at a price, and it is worth knowing before you start: a redacted page loses all of its selectable text, not only the covered part, so it stops being searchable and stops working with screen readers. Pages with no boxes are copied through untouched and keep their real text. Document metadata - title, author, subject, keywords, producer and creator - is cleared on export, because those fields routinely repeat the very thing being hidden. What this does not touch is anything outside the visible page: attachments, embedded files and form field values are left as they were, so open the exported file and check it before you send it anywhere.
All processing happens in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to any server.
A redacted page is re-made as an image, so the text and pictures under a box are gone from the file, not covered by a shape.
Pages you leave alone are copied through untouched and keep their real, selectable text.
No signup, no watermarks, no limits. Completely free to use forever.
Drop the PDF into the upload area, click to browse, or paste it with Ctrl+V. The first page appears on the canvas.
Drag across the page to draw a black box. Move to other pages with the previous and next controls and draw there too - every box stays on the page you drew it on.
Drag a box to move it, or focus it and nudge it with the arrow keys. Delete removes the selected box.
Choose 96, 150 or 300 DPI for the pages being redacted. 150 suits screen reading and ordinary printing; 300 suits small print and photographs.
Click Export PDF. Redacted pages are rendered one at a time with progress you can cancel, other pages are copied through untouched, and metadata is cleared. Open the downloaded file and confirm it before you share it.
The preview, the boxes and the export all happen in your browser using JavaScript. Your PDF is never uploaded to a server, nothing is logged, and closing the tab discards it. Note what the export does and does not do: content under a box is destroyed because the page becomes an image, a redacted page therefore loses all of its selectable text, and nothing outside the visible page - attachments, embedded files, form field values - is touched, so check the output before sharing it.
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Free online tool to compress a PDF. Keep Text mode re-saves the file losslessly and strips unnecessary metadata, keeping every word selectable and searchable, for a modest reduction. Rasterise mode renders every page to a JPEG image at a quality you choose, for a much bigger drop in size at the cost of selectable text. No signup required, 100% private.
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