Black out names, account numbers or any confidential text across a whole PDF — and have it truly removed, not just covered with a box.
Use This Tool — Free ↗Choose the document with text to redact.
Enter the words or phrases to black out, separated by commas.
Every match is found, blacked out and permanently deleted from the file.
Drawing a black rectangle over text in most editors only hides it visually — the underlying words are still in the file and can be copied or recovered. That is how real data leaks happen.
This tool finds every occurrence of the terms you specify, covers them, and then applies the redaction so the text is genuinely stripped out of the document.
Yes. Matches are covered and then permanently deleted from the PDF, so they cannot be copied or recovered.
Yes — enter multiple words or phrases separated by commas and all are removed in one pass.
Yes, all pages are scanned for each term.
Yes — completely free, with no sign-up and no watermark.