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⚠ How redaction works Redaction permanently destroys the data underneath each black box — it's not just a visual cover. To make this irreversible, any page with a redaction will be flattened to an image. That means: redacted pages lose text-search and copy-paste abilities. Pages without any redactions are kept fully searchable. Document metadata (title, author, etc.) is also wiped by default.

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Regex Case-sensitive

Type literal text (e.g. John Smith) and click Find & Redact All to redact every match across the document. Enable Regex for patterns like \d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4} (SSN) or [\w.-]+@[\w.-]+ (email). Limitation: only matches real text — not text inside scanned images.

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This action is irreversible. The original text and images under each black box will be deleted from the file. The redacted pages will become images and will no longer be searchable.

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