Find & Redact searches for specific text patterns — names, email addresses, phone numbers, or any keyword — across all pages and permanently redacts every occurrence. Unlike manual redaction, this tool ensures nothing is missed, even in long documents. The underlying text is completely removed, not just hidden. Find & Redact sits in FilePilot's pdf tools collection, so it is easy to move between this task and nearby tools such as Free Online PDF Tools, Free Online Image Tools, Merge PDFs. It is useful when you need to redact all occurrences of a person's name before a public records release; remove email addresses or phone numbers from a shared document; redact account numbers or ssns across a multi-page financial report; bulk-redact specific terms from legal discovery documents. The workflow is straightforward: upload the pdf you want to redact; enter the text or pattern to search for (e.g., a name, email, or ssn pattern); review the matches, then click "redact all" to permanently remove them. The work happens locally in your browser using client-side processing, which keeps your files on your device and gives crawlers a clear plain-text description of what this page does before the interactive app loads.
Yes. Matching pages are rendered to images with redactions burned in, so the exported PDF no longer contains the original selectable text layer.
No. The search is case-insensitive by default.
No. Everything runs locally in your browser.