Permanently black out, white out, or blur sensitive text and images. Redaction happens entirely in your browser — nothing is ever uploaded.
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Most tools hide text with a box. This tool destroys it. Every page is converted to an image with your marks burned in — the original text layer no longer exists in the output.
Drop your PDF into the tool. It opens and renders locally in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere.
Click and drag over any text or image you want to remove. Choose black, white, or blur for each mark. Work page by page.
Click Apply Redactions. Each page is flattened to an image with your marks burned in permanently. Download the result.
Choose the redaction style that fits your document and context.
The legal standard. Solid black rectangles permanently obscure text and images. Used in court productions, FOIA releases, and formal document disclosure.
Covers content with white. Useful when sharing internally where you want a clean look, or when the document background is white and you want the redaction to be discreet.
Applies a strong blur effect over the selected area. Commonly used for screenshots, personal photos, ID numbers, and situations where redaction needs to look less formal.
A black box drawn on top of a PDF looks redacted. It isn’t. The text underneath is still in the file and can be extracted in seconds.
Many free “redaction” tools add a black rectangle as an annotation layer. Copy the text under the box, open the file in a text extractor, or remove the annotation layer — the content reappears.
Every page is rendered to a canvas image, your marks are drawn onto that image, and the image becomes the page. There is no text layer left to extract. The content is gone from the file structure entirely.
Redaction only means something if the document stays private during processing. RapidTools never uploads your file. Everything runs in your browser using JavaScript.
Redaction is typically needed for the most sensitive documents you have — legal filings, HR records, medical information, financial data. Uploading those to a free online tool’s server defeats the purpose.
RapidTools processes everything locally. There is no server receiving your file. The redaction happens in JavaScript running on your own device.
Everything you need to know about permanently removing content from PDF files.
Every RapidTools tool is private, free, and runs locally in your browser.
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