Redaction has to be irreversible. Simply drawing a black rectangle in a PDF viewer doesn't remove the underlying text — anyone can copy through the box and see the redacted content. The Rankato Redactor draws the visual black box and removes the underlying text and image data from the PDF, so search and copy-paste return nothing. Preview the redacted document with search enabled to verify.
Visual + data redaction
Draw redaction rectangles on any page. Each rectangle: covers the region with a black (or custom color) box, deletes the underlying text glyphs from the PDF's content stream, and blanks the corresponding pixels in any embedded raster image. That's why the redaction is permanent — the source data is gone, not just hidden.
Search-and-redact
Type sensitive terms (SSNs, names, addresses) and the tool finds and redacts every occurrence across the document. Regex mode for structured data like phone numbers or credit cards. Always verify the results manually — a false-negative on a sensitive term is a real leak.
Verification pass
After redaction, the tool re-parses the output and reports: number of text runs removed, remaining text-run count, and any images that were partially blanked. Copy-paste out of the redacted PDF to confirm nothing sensitive comes through.