Is redaction here actually secure?

Yes. The text is removed from the document rather than covered with a black rectangle. Drawing a box over text in many editors leaves the text underneath, where it can be selected or extracted — a mistake that has leaked real documents.

A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, so its text cannot be searched or selected. OCR reads the image and adds a real text layer, making the document searchable.

📝 PDF Editor

See every page as a thumbnail, then reorder, rotate or delete pages, split, watermark, find & replace, redact, add text, extract text or OCR.

📄 Choose PDF

Pick a PDF to see its pages, then reorder, rotate, delete, split, watermark or extract text.

About PDF Editor

Most PDF edits are structural rather than textual: pages in the wrong order, a scan that came out sideways, a page that should not be in the document at all. This editor shows every page as a thumbnail so those changes are direct manipulation rather than guesswork.

It also handles the harder cases — watermarking, find and replace, genuine redaction, and OCR for scanned documents.

How to use it

Open a PDF. Every page appears as a thumbnail.
Drag to reorder, rotate or delete pages; or split the document into ranges.
For text operations, choose find and replace, add text, redact, or run OCR on a scanned document.
Save. The result is written to a new file — the original is never modified.

Frequently asked questions

Is redaction here actually secure?: Yes. The text is removed from the document rather than covered with a black rectangle. Drawing a box over text in many editors leaves the text underneath, where it can be selected or extracted — a mistake that has leaked real documents.
What does OCR do?: A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, so its text cannot be searched or selected. OCR reads the image and adds a real text layer, making the document searchable.