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Auto-redact by search

Type a name, number or phrase and every occurrence in the PDF is found and permanently removed.

Manual redaction misses copies you did not spot. This searches the entire text layer, covers every match, and re-renders those pages so the text underneath is genuinely gone — not hidden behind a box.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Enter one or more terms, separated by commas.

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    Every occurrence is located through the text layer and covered.

  3. 3

    Affected pages are re-rendered as images, so the matched text no longer exists in the file.

Questions

Does it work on scans?

Scans have no text layer to search. Run OCR first to add one, then redact.

Is the text really gone?

Yes. Pages containing matches are re-rendered as images after the boxes are drawn, so a copy-paste or text extraction finds nothing.

Related tools

Redact PDFPermanently remove sensitive content — the pixels and the text underneath.Edit PDF metadataSet title, author, subject and keywords — or wipe them entirely.OCRRead the text in scans and photos, and produce a searchable PDF, Word file or plain text.