PDF & Document
Redaction for Legal Professionals
Black out sensitive data in PDFs, scanned documents and image files - processed entirely on your device.
Start Redacting FreeFully featured Pro trial on your first document. Packs from $25.
Not every black box is a redaction
Many PDF tools draw a shape over the text. The words are still in the file. Try it yourself - select both bars below with your cursor.
A typical overlay "redaction"
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Select the black bar above. The text is still there - anyone who receives the file can copy it straight out.A RedactProof redaction
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Now select this one. Nothing. The content is destroyed at the pixel level - it no longer exists in the file.Have a document you're not sure about? Run it through Inspect →
How many of these sound familiar?
Tick any that apply - each one gets an answer. Most redaction failures come from process, not carelessness, and one exposed line is enough to make a disclosure reportable.
Four promises you’ll meet when comparing tools
Is the extracted text uploaded?
The file itself stays put - but the text layer, the sensitive part, goes to a third-party server for processing. Personal data has travelled, and data residency obligations follow it, whether or not a "file" was uploaded.
On-device, text layer included
Your file, its text layer, the detection and the export: all of it stays on your device. This is the default architecture on every plan. Precision Engine is the opt-in exception on Pro plans, and admins can disable it at policy level.
Check what actually travels. "No file uploads" can be true while the extracted text - every name, number and address in the document - is sent to the cloud for detection.
The same encryption as any website
“Military-grade” is AES-256 - the same encryption as every login page. The claim quietly tells you your document travels: encrypted to their servers, decrypted on arrival - and now it's a data residency issue.
Nothing to encrypt in transit
By default your document never travels, so transit encryption has nothing to protect. What matters is the redaction itself: pixel-burn destroys the content in the file, and the certificate makes any later change detectable.
Encryption protects data on the move and at rest. Read the claim again: if your document needs encrypting in transit, it's because it travels.
“No human review needed”
Detection is good at finding candidates. But every detector has false positives and misses, and no accuracy figure changes that. It also can't decide what must be withheld - that's judgement, not pattern-matching. "Fully automated" means nobody caught the misses. If accuracy matters, a person belongs in the loop.
You decide - and it's on the record
A person approves every redaction before export; exemption codes capture the why, and the redaction log keeps the record. Teams can add an approval workflow: a second person reviews the work and exports under their own name. That chain - decision, reason, record - is what stands up to a regulator or court.
Automatic detection is genuinely good - but it isn't judgement. A reliable redaction process pairs the two, and can prove who decided what.
99% of what, measured where?
That number came from a benchmark the vendor chose - not from your scans, your formats, your edge cases. Quoted without a corpus, a document type or a recall figure, it can't be checked.
Layered detection, human-checked
Layered detection - patterns for structured data, AI and manual tools for the rest, recursive checks at export. Our aim is different from a benchmark: give you the tools to take each document to 100%, signed off at your discretion.
Accuracy numbers without a corpus, a document type, and a recall figure are marketing. And even at face value: 99% across a 10,000-item disclosure is a hundred leaks.
Built for Compliance
You make every call. Everything you need for secure, verifiable document redaction.
Privacy by Default
Files open in the editor and stay on your device - no cloud processing, no data residency concerns. It works like a desktop app, no install needed.
Only content-free metadata reaches our servers - cryptographic fingerprints to verify redactions, plus redaction coordinates for optional team workflows. The files themselves - contents, text, filename, everything - stay on your device.
Stay in Control
AI never redacts on its own. Every suggestion is yours to accept, refine, or reject - per word, line, or region. Manual tools are available on every plan.
Reveal mode flips the workflow: everything starts redacted, and you reveal only what's safe to share. The control is yours, either direction.
Ready for Disclosure
Helps you meet your compliance obligations - clinical disclosures, FOI/SAR responses, insurance submissions, and more.
On Pro, every disclosure is inspectable end-to-end: Bates numbering, exemption codes, tamper-evident certificates, and CSV redaction logs.
And every disclosure leaves with its paperwork
Three files with every Pro export (the free trial runs at Pro level), a report at the recipient's end, and the account history behind them all. Depending on your business needs, you can switch any of these off - or change how they're packaged and downloaded to fit your systems.
How It Works
Click each step to explore
Don't take our word for it
Every claim on this page is checkable. That is the point of the product.
Pricing that scales with you
From a one-off pack to organisation-wide - pay for how you actually work
Start redacting before you even have an account. One source document with Pro-level features, unlimited edits and re-exports, no card required. You'll only be asked for an email address when you want to download your redacted file.
Flex Pack
For occasional redaction work
Includes:
- Core processing features per document
- Valid 13 months from purchase
- Top up any time
- No verification certificates or audit trail
One-off payment · no renewal
Core
For individual professionals
Includes:
- On-device AI detection, 60+ PII types - up to 10x faster with the optional Accelerator
- Documents never leave your device
- PDF & image redaction, with OCR restoration
- Unlimited documents, fair use
Single user · 14-day money-back guarantee.
Pro
For regulated and audited work
Everything in Core, plus:
- The proof layer: verification certificates & full audit trail
- Precision Engine, bulk processing & exemption codes
- Legal discovery export (Bates + CSV log)
- Session checkpoints & custom exclusion list
- With 2+ seats: admin dashboard, shared codes & central billing
- Priority email support
Cancel any time · pay yearly, save 2 months
Public Sector & Contract
For procurement-led buyers
Everything in Pro, plus:
- Invoice / PO billing with payment terms
- Signed DPA, attestation pack & subprocessor list
- On-device processing, enforceable organisation-wide
- Named contact, priority phone support & onboarding options
Resellers and distributors: quote by email.
Common questions
Do my documents get uploaded anywhere?
No. The document opens and is processed in your browser. What reaches our servers is content-free: a cryptographic fingerprint to issue the verification certificate, plus redaction coordinates if you use saved sessions or team approvals - never the file, its text, or its name. (The optional Precision Engine, clearly labelled and off by default, sends extracted text for deeper analysis - never the document.)
Is the redaction permanent?
Yes. Pixel-burn destroys the content at the image level - no hidden layers, no overlay to peel back, nothing to recover. The certificate then makes any later change to the file detectable.
Is the free trial actually free?
Yes. One source document with full Pro-level features, unlimited re-exports of that document, no card. If it doesn't earn an upgrade, you've lost nothing.
I only redact occasionally - do I need a subscription?
No. Flex Packs cover 5 documents (£19) or 25 documents (£59), valid for 13 months, no subscription.
Can recipients verify a document without an account?
Yes. They scan the QR on the certificate or open the verify link - no account, no contact with you or with us. Verification also works fully offline from the export's verify.json file.
Can a second person review redactions before they're released?
Yes. On team accounts, members can be set to “approval required”: they prepare and submit redaction work, and an approver reviews the same work on their own copy of the document and exports it under their own name - the separation-of-duties control auditors call maker-checker. Every step is audit-logged.
Does it work on scans and photos?
Yes. Text recognition runs on your device, so scanned pages and images can be searched and redacted like any other page.
Do I need IT approval or an install?
It runs in a modern browser - nothing installs. (An optional desktop accelerator exists for heavy workloads, but nothing requires it.)
Redact with Confidence
Documents stay on your device. Just your email to begin.
Start RedactingNot ready to pick a plan? Start with the free document - upgrade only if it earns it.
Here's what the free trial is
So there are no surprises after you sign in.
- ✓One source document - at Pro level: automatic detection, verification certificate, audit artifacts, unlimited edits and re-exports.
- ✓Unlimited edits and re-exports of that document - rework and rerun it as many times as you need.
- ✓No card, no time limit. Just an email address.
- ✓Files never upload - on the trial or any plan. The work happens in your browser.
Drop your document in and start redacting before you even create the account - nothing counts until you export.