When this tool is useful
Removing visible secrets from a shareable copy when loss of searchable text, vectors, links, forms, and accessibility is accepted.
How local processing works
Every page is rendered to pixels, the specified redaction rectangles are burned into matching pages, and a new image-based PDF is written locally.
How to use it
- Prepare Permanently redact PDF areas: Work from a copy and confirm working-copy status, every sensitive occurrence, normalized rectangle coordinates, matching page numbers, and all pages requiring treatment. Keep the source unchanged.
- Apply Permanently redact PDF areas: Process locally in the browser. Every page is rendered to pixels, the specified redaction rectangles are burned into matching pages, and a new image-based PDF is written locally.
- Download and verify: Save under a new name. Search and extract text, zoom into every mark, inspect metadata and attachments separately, and ask a second reviewer to attempt recovery.
Important limitations
The output is intentionally rasterized and the covered pixels are not recoverable; selectable text, vectors, links, forms, signatures, annotations, and accessibility are lost or invalidated.
Verify the downloaded result
Search and extract text, zoom into every mark, inspect metadata and attachments separately, and ask a second reviewer to attempt recovery.
Private by design
Your files stay in this browser. The tool does not upload the source or output to our servers.
Questions and answers
When should I use Permanently redact PDF areas?
Removing visible secrets from a shareable copy when loss of searchable text, vectors, links, forms, and accessibility is accepted.
What does Permanently redact PDF areas change?
Every page is rendered to pixels, the specified redaction rectangles are burned into matching pages, and a new image-based PDF is written locally.
Which limits and settings matter?
working-copy status, every sensitive occurrence, normalized rectangle coordinates, matching page numbers, and all pages requiring treatment. The output is intentionally rasterized and the covered pixels are not recoverable; selectable text, vectors, links, forms, signatures, annotations, and accessibility are lost or invalidated.
How do I verify the result?
Search and extract text, zoom into every mark, inspect metadata and attachments separately, and ask a second reviewer to attempt recovery.