About RedactPDF
Privacy should be free. No signup walls and no stored copies of your PDF.
We built RedactPDF because Adobe put redaction behind a $20/mo paywall. Privacy should be free. Millions of people need to black out a social security number, remove a client name from an exhibit, or publish a GDPR-safe DSAR response every month — without enterprise software or a cloud inbox that keeps their files.
You open and mark PDFs in your browser. When you click Apply redaction, the file is sent over HTTPS to our secure redaction service, processed in memory, and returned. We do not store PDFs on disk or in a cloud inbox. Preview, search, and marking run in your browser. OCR for scanned pages runs locally when you need it.
Our mission
Make document privacy accessible to everyone.
That means no signup walls and honest marketing: we explain when HTTPS redaction runs and that we do not store your PDF. We fund the site through optional ads on educational pages — never on the redaction tool itself.
Danish Waqad
Software Engineer
Danish spent eight years in application security before focusing on document workflows. He leads RedactPDF's product — browser marking plus secure redaction on export, with verification built in. Contact via danishwaqad@gmail.com.
What we believe
- Permanent redaction beats cosmetic black boxes
- Transient HTTPS processing beats long-term cloud storage for sensitive PDFs
- Verification (search + copy tests) is non-negotiable before sharing
- Legal and privacy education should be free to read