Find and redact

Auto redact matching text

Search for a word or phrase and let CrabPDF create redaction boxes over matching detected text. Then export a flattened redacted PDF.

How it works

Open the Redact panel.

Enter the text you want to find.

Choose match case or whole word when needed.

Review the boxes, then export the flattened redacted PDF.

Related tools

Manual redaction · Find and replace · OCR scanned PDFs

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Auto redact runs locally in your browser. No upload is required, and after CrabPDF is loaded you can turn off Wi-Fi and keep working.