Redacting: hiding information for good
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Where: Tools › Pages & PDF › Redact; document menu (⋮) › PDF tools and signing › PDF tools › Redact.
Covers things like an ID number, IBAN, address or signature with a black box, permanently. Pages you draw a box on are turned into images; the text under the box is really removed from the file and can't be copied or brought back. The original document does not change. It is free.
- 1In Tools tap Redact and choose the document.
- 2Drag your finger over what you want to hide; a black box appears. Use the arrows at the bottom to go to other pages and draw boxes there too.
- 3To remove a wrong box, tap it or use the "Undo last box" button.
- 4Tap "Redact". The result becomes a new document with the "(redacted)" suffix.
Tip: On redacted pages the text can no longer be selected or listened to. If you want it selectable again, run the result through "Make searchable".
Web (quillo.tr): Tools › Redact. You can drag a box to move it, resize it from a corner and remove it with the cross in its middle. It also works without an account at quillo.tr/redact-pdf; the document does not go to the server.
