# Black out private text

Cover private words with black so they are gone for good. Redact private text in a PDF for good. Free to use. No sign-up. Your files never leave your device.

Use it here: https://pannapdf.app/black-out/

Redact a PDF for free. Black out names, account numbers or an Aadhaar number so they are removed from the file for good, not just covered. The words under the black boxes cannot be recovered.

Also known as: redact PDF, black out text in PDF, PDF redaction, hide text in PDF, censor PDF, remove sensitive information from PDF.

## How it works

1. Choose the PDF with something private in it.
2. Press and drag a box over each thing you want gone.
3. Press Save. The boxes become solid black and what was underneath is removed from the file.

## Questions people ask

### Can someone uncover what I blacked out?

No. The page is saved as a new picture with the black boxes painted in, so what was under them is not in the file at all.

### What else changes?

Each page you black out becomes a picture, so its other words can no longer be selected.

## About Panna

Every tool runs inside the visitor's own browser. Files are never uploaded; they do not leave the phone or computer. There is no sign-up and no charge, and the site adds no watermark of its own to the files. The site can be shown in 19 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili, Nepali, Sindhi, Konkani, Dogri, Sanskrit.

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