Draw a box over anything that should not be there — or search for a phrase and have every occurrence found for you. bakepdf paints the box and then rasterises the affected pages, so the text underneath is destroyed rather than hidden behind a rectangle that copy-paste walks straight through.
This takes a second on the first visit, then it is cached.
Drop in the document.
Draw over what has to go, or search for a phrase to catch every occurrence.
Apply. The affected pages are flattened, so the hidden text no longer exists in the file.
A black rectangle is a drawing on top of text that is still in the file — select it, copy it, paste it, and there it is. Redaction here removes the text layer of the affected pages entirely, which is the only way a redaction actually holds.
The redacted pages do not — that is the price of doing it properly. Pages you did not touch are left exactly as they were.
No. Redact PDF runs entirely inside your browser using WebAssembly and the Canvas API — the bytes of your document never travel to us. The only thing that reaches our servers is a counter incrementing by one, and whatever you deliberately choose to save to your library.
Not this one. Redact PDF is part of Baker, at $10 a month — along with the other conversion, compression and security tools, and the AI ones. Signing, editing, watermarking, merging, splitting, rotating, organising and cropping are free, three documents a day up to ten pages each, with no account.