Redact a PDF properly
Delete words from the file, not draw a box over them.
Private — processed on your device, never uploaded
About this tool
Search for a name, a number or an address, choose the lines that hold it, and the words are deleted from the document — not hidden under a rectangle that anyone can select, copy and read back. The whole thing happens privately in your browser, which is where a document worth redacting should stay.
Private by design — your files never leave your device. Toolpit has no upload step and no server that can see your document — the work happens in this tab, on your machine, and stops the moment you close it.
How to redact a PDF properly
Drop in the PDF. Every page is read in this tab so the search can cover all of it.
Type the name, number or phrase you need gone. Every line containing it is listed.
Tick the lines to remove — or take all of them at once.
Save. The words are deleted from the file, and a bar is drawn where they were.
Questions
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no upload step and no server that could receive the file — the tool runs as code in this browser tab, works on the copy your browser opened, and forgets it when you close the tab. You can check this yourself: open your browser’s network panel and run the tool. You will see the page, its scripts and the ads that pay for the site — and no request carrying your file, because there is no endpoint to carry it to.
How is this different from drawing a black box over the text?
A black box is a shape drawn on top of the words, and both end up in the file. Select the page, copy it, paste it anywhere, and the text you thought you had removed is right there — which is how unredacted court filings and contracts keep reaching the press. This deletes the glyphs from the page’s content stream, so there is nothing underneath to recover. The bar you see afterwards is cosmetic, drawn once the words are already gone.
Can I redact a single word rather than the whole line?
Not on its own. The smallest thing a PDF lets anyone delete is a run of glyphs the document drew as a unit, which is usually a line or part of one. If a line holds both something to remove and something to keep, redact the line and retype what should stay with the PDF editor.
Can I redact a scanned document?
No — a scan is an image, so there is no text in it to delete. What looks like words is pixels. You would need to cover the area and flatten the page, which is a different operation with weaker guarantees, or run OCR first and work from the result.
How do I check that it worked?
The same way anyone else would try to defeat it. Open the saved file, select the whole page, and paste it into a plain text editor. If what you removed does not appear in the paste, it is not in the document.
Is there a watermark or a page limit?
Never. There is no watermark, no page limit, no daily cap and no paid tier that unlocks the real output. Toolpit costs nothing to run per file, because your device does the work.
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